Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 211

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 211
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 Rights. Subject to any rights and restrictions for the time being attached to any ordinary share, every shareholder present shall, at a general meeting of our company, have the right to speak. Notwithstanding any provisions in our eleventh amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to the contrary, each Class A ordinary share and each Class B ordinary share shall entitle its holder to one vote on a poll at a general meeting in respect of a resolution on any of the following matters:

(a)any amendment to our eleventh amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, including the variation of the rights attached to any class of shares;

(b)the appointment, election or removal of any independent non-executive director;

(c)the appointment or removal of the auditors; or

(d)the voluntary liquidation or winding-up of our company.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a holder of Class B ordinary shares is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time to exercise more than one vote per ordinary share when voting on a resolution to amend our eleventh amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, any holder of Class B ordinary share may elect to exercise such number of votes per ordinary share as is permitted by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, up to the maximum number of votes attached to each Class B ordinary share as set out above.

Except for matters mentioned above, on a show of hands every shareholder present at the meeting shall, at a general meeting of our company, each have one vote, and on a poll each holder of Class A ordinary shares present at the meeting is entitled to one vote per share and each holder of Class B ordinary shares present at the meeting is entitled to ten votes per share. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll save that the chairman of such meeting may, in good faith, allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter as prescribed under the Hong Kong Listing Rules to be voted on by a show of hands.

An ordinary resolution to be passed at a meeting by the shareholders requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes attaching to the ordinary shares cast at a meeting, while a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of not less than three-fourths of the votes cast by holders of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares at a meeting and includes a unanimous written resolution passed. A special resolution will be required for important matters such as reduction of share capital or making changes to our eleventh amended and restated memorandum and articles of