China Communications Services Corporation Limited Annual Report 2015
        
        
          
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            NOTES TO THE
          
        
        
          
            CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
          
        
        
          For the year ended 31 December 2015
        
        
          
            1. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES AND ORGANISATION
          
        
        
          
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            (b) Organisation
          
        
        
          
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          (iii) The Group, immediately after the Restructuring, contains substantially all of the operating assets and liabilities
        
        
          relating to the Predecessor Operations, comprising (1) telecommunications infrastructure design, construction
        
        
          and project supervision and management; (2) business process outsourcing (including management of
        
        
          infrastructure for information technologies business, general facilities management, distribution of
        
        
          telecommunications services and products); and (3) a variety of other services including applications, content
        
        
          and others.
        
        
          (iv) In connection with the Restructuring, certain assets and liabilities historically associated with the Predecessor
        
        
          Operations were not transferred to the Company and were retained by CTC.
        
        
          The above Restructuring procedures primarily resulted in an effect of the transfer from CTC to the Company of the
        
        
          operating assets and liabilities relating to the telecommunications related services carried on by the Predecessor
        
        
          Operations, which were previously owned or controlled by CTC prior to the Restructuring.
        
        
          In December 2006, the Company issued 1,291,293,000 H shares with a par value of RMB1.00 each, at a price of
        
        
          HKD2.20 per H share by way of an initial public offering (the “IPO”) to Hong Kong and overseas investors. In
        
        
          connection with the IPO, 129,129,300 domestic state-owned shares of RMB1.00 each owned by CTC and its
        
        
          subsidiaries were converted into H shares and transferred to the National Council for Social Security Fund of the PRC
        
        
          (“SSF”). In December 2006, the Company also issued 193,693,000 H shares with a par value of RMB1.00 each, at a
        
        
          price of HKD2.20 per H share upon the exercise of the over-allotment option. In connection with the exercise of the
        
        
          over-allotment option, 19,369,300 domestic state owned shares of RMB1.00 each owned by CTC and its subsidiaries
        
        
          were converted into H shares and transferred to SSF. In April 2008, the Company completed the placing of
        
        
          326,696,000 H shares with a par value of RMB1.00 each at a price of RMB5.25 (the “Placing”). In connection with
        
        
          the Placing, 32,669,600 domestic legal person shares of RMB1.00 each owned by SSF was converted into H shares.
        
        
          On 8 February 2012, the Company issued 398,570,040 H shares on the basis of 2 H rights shares for every 10
        
        
          existing H shares at a price of HKD3.19 per H rights share, and issued 755,766,360 domestic shares on the basis of 2
        
        
          domestic rights shares for every 10 existing domestic shares at a price of RMB2.59 per domestic rights share. A total
        
        
          of 2,391,420,240 H shares have been listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”).
        
        
          Pursuant to the acquisition agreement dated 15 June 2007, the Company acquired the telecommunications
        
        
          infrastructure services, business process outsourcing services and applications, content and other services located in
        
        
          Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,
        
        
          Chongqing Municipality, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province,
        
        
          Qinghai Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, together with the equity interests in Guangdong Nanfang
        
        
          Communication GSM Intelligent Card System Co., Ltd and Ningbo Public Information Industry Co., Ltd (the “Target
        
        
          Business”) from CTC. Such acquisition was completed on 31 August 2007.