Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 198

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 198
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 with legal and regulatory requirements;  

Table of Contents

  advising the board periodically with respect to significant developments in the law and practice of corporate governance as well as our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, such as ...  

  guiding and reviewing the formulation of our ESG vision, strategies and plans, reporting and making recommendations to the board accordingly, assisting the board in identifying and evaluating o...  

  reviewing and monitoring whether we are operated and managed for the benefit of all our shareholders; and  

  reviewing and monitoring all risks related to our weighted voting rights structure and the management of conflicts of interests, make a recommendation to the board on any matter where there is ...  

Duties of Directors

Under Cayman Islands law, our directors owe fiduciary duties to our company, including a duty of loyalty, a duty to act honestly, and a duty to act in what they consider in good faith to be in our best interests. Our directors must also exercise their powers only for a proper purpose. Our directors also have a duty to exercise the skill they actually possess and such care and diligence that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. In fulfilling their duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our memorandum and articles of association, as amended and restated from time to time, and the class rights vested thereunder in the holders of the shares. Our company has the right to seek damages if a duty owed by our directors is breached. A shareholder may in certain circumstances have rights to damages if a duty owed by the directors is breached.

Our board of directors has all the powers necessary for managing, and for directing and supervising, our business affairs. The functions and powers of our board of directors include, among others:

  convening shareholders’ annual general meetings and reporting its work to shareholders at such meetings;  

  declaring dividends and distributions;  

  appointing officers and determining the term of office of the officers;  

  exercising the borrowing powers of our company and mortgaging the property of our company; and  

  approving the transfer of shares in our company, including the registration of such shares in our share register.  

Terms of Directors and Officers

Our directors may be elected by an ordinary resolution of our shareholders. 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 approving the appointment, election or removal of any Independent Non-executive Director (as defined in our eleventh amended and restated memorandum and articles