Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 199

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 199
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 of association). Alternatively, our board of directors may, by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the directors present and voting at a board meeting appoint any person as a director to fill a casual vacancy on our board or as an addition to the existing board. Any director so appointed shall hold office only until the first annual general meeting of the Company after his or her appointment and shall then be eligible for re-election at that meeting. Our directors are not automatically subject to a term of office and hold office until such time as they are removed from office by an ordinary resolution of our shareholders. At every annual general meeting of the Company, the Independent Non-Executive Directors for the time being shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Independent Non-Executive Director (including those appointed for a specific term) shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Independent Non-Executive Director shall retain office until the close of the meeting at which he retires and shall be eligible for re-election thereat. In addition, a director will cease to be a director if he

  (i)      becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors;  

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  (ii)      dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind;  

  (iii)      resigns his office by notice in writing;  

  (iv)      without special leave of absence from our board, is absent from meetings of our board for three consecutive meetings and our board resolves that his office be vacated; or  

  (v)      is removed from office pursuant to any other provision of our articles of association.  

Our officers are appointed by and serve at the discretion of the board of directors, and may be removed by our board of directors.

D. Employees

As of December 31, 2022, 2023, and 2024, we had 2,515, 2,731, and 1,887 full-time employees, respectively, all of whom were based in China, primarily at our headquarters in Beijing, China.

The following table sets forth the number of our employees by function as of December 31, 2024.

                                              Number of                  
  Function                                    Employees      Percentage  
  Content and Content-Related Operations            593            31.4  
  Research and Development                          754            40.0  
  Sales and Marketing                               385            20.4  
  General Administration                            155             8.2  
  Total