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China Mobile Limited
Annual Report 2012
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Report of Directors
Directors
The directors during the financial year were:
Executive directors:
Xi Guohua (Chairman) (re-designated from Vice-Chairman to Chairman on 22 March 2012)
WANG Jianzhou (resigned on 22 March 2012)
LI Yue
LU Xiangdong (resigned on 15 March 2012)
XUE Taohai
HUANG Wenlin
SHA Yuejia
LIU Aili
XIN Fanfei (resigned on 22 March 2012)
XU Long (resigned on 14 December 2012)
Independent non-executive directors:
LO Ka Shui
Frank WONG Kwong Shing
Moses CHENG Mo Chi
In accordance with Article 97 of the Company’s Articles of Association, Mr. LI Yue, Mr. XUE Taohai and Madam HUANG
Wenlin will retire by rotation at the forthcoming annual general meeting of the Company and, being eligible, offer themselves
for re-election.
The biographies of the directors proposed for re-election at the forthcoming annual general meeting (“Directors for Re-
election”) are set out on pages 6 to 9. Except as disclosed in such biographies, the Directors for Re-election have not held
any other directorships in any listed public companies in the last three years. Further, except as noted in the biographies,
none of the Directors for Re-election is connected with any directors, senior management or substantial or controlling
shareholders of the Company and, except as disclosed in the paragraphs headed “Directors’ and Chief Executive’s Interest
and Short Positions in Shares, Underlying Shares and Debentures” and “Share Option Schemes” below, none of them has
any interests in the shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures
Ordinance (“SFO”).
The service contracts of all the Directors for Re-election do not provide for a specified length of service and each of such
directors will be subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at annual general meetings of the Company every three
years. Each of the Directors for Re-election is entitled to an annual director’s fee of HK$180,000 as proposed by the Board
and approved by the shareholders of the Company. Director’s fees are payable on a time pro-rata basis for any non-full
year’s service. In addition, for the financial year ended 31 December 2012, Mr. LI Yue, Mr. XUE Taohai and Madam HUANG
Wenlin received annual remuneration, including retirement scheme contributions, of HK$1,329,000, HK$1,197,000 and
HK$1,197,000, respectively, plus a discretionary bonus as determined by the Board with respect to the director’s
performance. The remuneration of these directors has been determined with reference to the individual’s duties,
responsibilities and experience, and to prevailing market conditions.