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              / China Communications Services Corporation Limited
            
            
              Corporate Governance Report
            
            
              The Company is committed to maintaining sound corporate governance standards and procedures to ensure the
            
            
              completeness, transparency and quality of its information disclosure, and strive to achieve more standardized
            
            
              operational procedures and effective management, so as to safeguard shareholders’ interests to the greatest extent.
            
            
              Corporate Governance Practices
            
            
              As a company incorporated in the PRC and listed on the Stock Exchange, the Company has not only complied with
            
            
              the relevant provisions of the Listing Rules, but also abided by the PRC Company Law and other applicable laws,
            
            
              regulations and regulatory requirements of Hong Kong and the PRC as fundamental guidelines for the Company’s
            
            
              corporate governance.
            
            
              While strictly complying with relevant laws and regulations, the Group is continually striving to further strengthen its
            
            
              internal control and risk management procedures and is in the process of enhancing its IT support system for internal
            
            
              control in order to improve its corporate governance standards and transparency. The Group’s persistent efforts in
            
            
              fostering sound corporate governance have been recognized by capital market: the Group was once again awarded a
            
            
              Gold Award in “The Asset Corporate Awards 2011” and recognized as one of “China’s Most Promising Companies
            
            
              2011” in the telecommunications category by
            
            
              The Asset
            
            
              , a respected financial magazine in Asia. Moreover, the
            
            
              Group was given one of the “Best Investor Relations by a China Company” awards in the “Asian Excellence
            
            
              Recognition Awards” 2011 by
            
            
              Corporate Governance Asia
            
            
              , a respected journal on Corporate Governance in Asia.
            
            
              For the year ended 31 December 2011, the Company had complied with the code provisions in the Code on
            
            
              Corporate Governance Practices as set out in Appendix 14 of the Listing Rules (the “Code Provisions”). In addition,
            
            
              the Company had also adopted certain applicable recommended best practices as set out in Appendix 14 of the
            
            
              Listing Rules (the “Recommended Best Practices”) in accordance with our actual situation.
            
            
              The directors of the Company confirm that it is their responsibility to prepare the financial statements of the
            
            
              Company and its subsidiaries (the “Group”), and to ensure that the financial statements are prepared in accordance
            
            
              with relevant laws and the accounting standards applicable to the Company. The directors also ensure that the
            
            
              financial statements of the Company are published promptly.
            
            
              The responsibility statement of KPMG, our external auditors, regarding its Independent Auditor’s Report on the
            
            
              financial statements of the Group is set out on page 97 of this annual report.