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Zhao Hong has been the chief auditor of Guotai Junan since October 30, 2024. The stock source of Guotai Junan is the restricted stock incentive plan. Trading Guotai Junan shares occurred before he became the chief auditor of Guotai Junan. During the above-mentioned self-inspection, he bought and sold Guotai Junan shares, which was based on his own and his family's financial needs, and had nothing to do with this major asset restructuring. There was no case of using the inside information of this major asset restructuring to buy and sell Guotai Junan shares. Zhao Hong sold 20,000 shares of Guotai Junan A shares on October 16, 2024 and 52,700 shares of Guotai Junan A shares on October 17, 2024.Institutional trading situationOn September 5 this year, Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities announced at the same time that Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities are planning to merge Haitong Securities with Guotai Junan and issue shares to raise matching funds. This merger case has attracted much attention from the market.

According to the announcement, for the above-mentioned behavior of buying and selling stocks during the self-inspection, the insiders of relevant insider information have issued self-inspection reports or explanations and commitments respectively, all of which indicate that the relevant operations are entirely based on the open market and personal independent judgment, and are purely personal investment behaviors, which have nothing to do with this major asset restructuring, and there is no situation of using the insider information of this major asset restructuring for trading.According to the information issued by the above-mentioned institutions, there is no correlation between the above stock trading behavior and this major asset restructuring, and it does not involve the use of insider information for trading.

The results show that 11 related natural persons are involved in buying and selling A shares of Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities. Including Han Zhida, vice president of Guotai Junan, Zhao Hong, chief auditor, Xiong Xiaohua, the mother of supervisor Shen Yun, Huang Guan Tu, the father of employee Huang Wenxin, and Zhou Yang, the spouse of Lv Na, an overseas legal consultant of Haitong Securities and a consultant lawyer of Gao Weishen Law Firm.On the evening of the 12th, Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities both announced that they had checked the transactions of insiders involved in this transaction in A shares of Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities, involving 11 related natural persons.According to the announcement, the self-examination period of insider information about the stock trading of this transaction is from six months before the merging parties first disclose this transaction or apply for stock suspension for this transaction (whichever is earlier) to the day before the first disclosure of "Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd. Share Exchange, Absorbing and Merging Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. and Raising Matching Funds and Related Party Transactions (Draft)", that is, from March 5, 2024 to November 21, 2024.