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          China Communications Services Corporation Limited Annual Report 2015
        
        
          
            REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS
          
        
        
          
            DIRECTORS’ AND SUPERVISORS’ INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS IN SHARES,
          
        
        
          
            UNDERLYING SHARES AND DEBENTURES
          
        
        
          As at 31 December 2015, none of the directors and supervisors of the Company had any interests or short positions in the
        
        
          shares, underlying shares of equity derivatives or debentures of the Company or its associated corporations (within the meaning
        
        
          of Part XV of the SFO) as recorded in the register required to be maintained under Section 352 of the SFO or as otherwise
        
        
          notified to the Company and the Stock Exchange pursuant to the Model Code for Securities Transactions by Directors of Listed
        
        
          Issuers. As at 31 December 2015, the Company had not granted its directors or supervisors, or their respective spouses or
        
        
          children below the age of 18 any rights to subscribe for the shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated
        
        
          corporations and none of them has ever exercised any such right to subscribe for shares or debentures.
        
        
          
            SHARE APPRECIATION RIGHTS
          
        
        
          Please refer to note 38 to the audited financial statements for details of the share appreciation rights scheme of the Company
        
        
          and the share appreciation rights granted during the year ended 31 December 2015.
        
        
          
            PUBLIC FLOAT
          
        
        
          As at the date of this annual report, based on information that is publicly available to the Company and within the knowledge of
        
        
          the directors, the Company has maintained the prescribed public float under the Listing Rules.
        
        
          
            DIRECTORS’ AND SUPERVISORS’ SERVICE CONTRACTS
          
        
        
          Each of the directors and supervisors has entered into a service contract with the Company. According to the service contract,
        
        
          each of the contracts has an initial term of three years and is renewable in accordance with the Articles of Association of the
        
        
          Company when the initial term expires except for Ms. Han Fang. These contracts are terminable at the option of either party by
        
        
          giving three months’ notice in writing or according to the terms of the contract prior to the expiry of the contract. No such
        
        
          service contract is not determinable by the Company within one year without payment of compensation (other than statutory
        
        
          compensation). Ms. Han Fang was appointed for a term commencing from the date of the extraordinary general meeting
        
        
          approving her appointment on 11 December 2015 to the date of annual general meeting of the Company for the year 2017 to
        
        
          be held in 2018.
        
        
          
            PERMITTED INDEMNITY PROVISION
          
        
        
          The Company has maintained appropriate directors and officers liability insurance cover for the directors, supervisors and senior
        
        
          management of the Company during the course of the financial year ended 31 December 2015 and remained in force as of the
        
        
          date of this report.
        
        
          
            DIRECTORS’ AND SUPERVISORS’ INTERESTS IN TRANSACTIONS, ARRANGEMENTS
          
        
        
          
            OR CONTRACTS
          
        
        
          Save for the transactions, arrangements or contracts set out in the “Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions
        
        
          and Results of Operations” section and “Directors’ and Supervisors’ Service Contracts”, “Major Customers and Suppliers”,
        
        
          “Preferential Treatment and Non-competition Arrangement with China Tower Corporation Limited” and “Continuing Connected
        
        
          Transactions” in the “Report of the Directors” section of this annual report and note 42 to the Consolidated Financial
        
        
          Statements, no other transaction, arrangement or contract that is significant in relation to the Group’s business to which the
        
        
          Company or any of its subsidiaries was a party and in which a person who at any time in 2015 was a Director or Supervisor of
        
        
          the Company or his or her connected entity had, directly or indirectly, a material interest subsisted during the year ended 31
        
        
          December 2015.