Exhibit 4.50

 

**Second Amended and Restated Exclusive Purchase Right Agreement**

 

eLong.Inc (hereinafter “Party A”) 

**Registered Address:**4th Floor,Hutchence David Century Garden, George Town, Grand 

Cayman, Cayman Islands. 

 

Veronica Chen (hereinafter “Party B”) 

ID number:120106196601157029 

**Residence:**No.6, Unit 4, Building 3, Daoxiangyuan, Haidian District, Beijing. 

 

Beijing eLong Information Technology Co., Ltd (hereinafter “Party C”) 

**Registered Address:**109, 1st Floor, Ji An Mansion, 68 South Xue Yuan Road, Haidian 

 

District, Beijing. 

**LegalRepresentative:** Justin Tang 

eLongNet Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Party D”) 

**Registered Address:**10 Jiu Xian Qiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. 

**Legal Representative:** Justin Tang 

 

**WHEREAS:**

 

1. Party A is a company registered and established in Cayman Islands; Party B is a PRCresident; Party C is a limited liability company established and validly existing in accordance with PRC laws, and of which 12.5% equity interest is held by Party B; Party D is a wholly foreign owned enterprise established and validly existing inaccordance with PRC laws, and is a wholly owned company of Party A. 

 

2.“Agreement” was entered into by and between Qu Zhi, a shareholder with former possession of 25% the equity interest in Party C and Party D dated as of August 22nd 2003, and according to which Party D provided Qu Zhi with funds for Qu Zhi to invest in Party C; “Subscribing Agreement” (hereinafter the“Original Subscribing Agreement”) was entered into by and between Qu Zhi and Party D dated as of August 23rd 2003, and according to which Qu Zhi offered Party D the right to exclusively purchase Party C’s equity interest held by Party B at a price of RMB 250,000, and Party D paid RMB1 to Party A as a consideration. 

 

3. “Loan Agreement” (hereinafter the “Loan Agreement”) was entered intoby and between Party A and Qu Zhi dated as of March 5th 2004, and according to which Party A provided a loan to QuZhi to refund to Party D for the funds and investment made by Party C. 

 

4.According to the Amended and Restated Exclusive Purchase Right Agreement signed among Party A, Party C, Party D and Qu Zhi, Qu Zhi is willing to grant Party A the right to subscribe for the equity interest of Party C held by Qu Zhi. Meanwhile, PartyD and Qu Zhi agree to unconditionally terminate the terms and conditions under the Original Subscribing Agreement so that Party A can enjoy the subscribing right on the equity interests of Qu Zhi. 

 

5. According to the Stock Transfer and Debt Transfer Agreement signed between Party B, HuangYiqun and Qu Zhi on December 30th 2004, Qu Zhi assign 12.5% equity interest of Beijing eLong each to Party B andHuang Yiqun and transfer the entire credit-debt relationship formed from investment in Beijing eLong. 

 

6. To reflect Part B’s succeeding the Amended and Restated Exclusive Purchase Right Agreement signed between Party A, Party C and Party D, each party hereby makes amendment and restatement to this agreement asfollows: 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties to this agreement hereby agree onDec.30, 2004 as follows: 

 

**Chapter One.*****Purchases and Sale ofEquity Interest*******

1.1 *Authorizations*

 

Party B hereby irrevocably delivers to Party A, under the laws of the PRC, an irrevocable sole authority of, following the steps decided by Party A, and the pricespecified in 1.3 of this agreement, purchasing by Party A or by one or more persons designated by Party A (the “Designated Persons”) at any time from Party B of its all or part of the equity interest of Party C (“Purchase Right ofEquity Interest”). Besides Party A and the Designated Persons, any third party does not have such Purchase Right of Equity Interest. Party C hereby agrees the delivery of Purchase Right of Equity Interest from Party B to Party A. As specifiedin this and this agreement, the “person” has the meaning of a person, corporation, joint venture, partnership, enterprise, trust or non-corporation organization. 

 

1.2 *Steps*

 

Upon and subject to the laws and regulations of PRC, Party A may send a written notice (the “Notice of Purchase of Equity Interest”) to Party B upon itsperformance of purchase to explain in detail the way of purchase. 

 

1.3*Purchase Price*

 

Except as requested by laws of P.R.C to evaluate, theprice of the Purchased Equity Interest (“Purchase Price”) shall be an equivalent of the actual amount of the Purchased Equity Interest contributed by Party B. 

 

1.4 *Transfer of the Purchased Equity Interest*

 

Every time upon Party A’s performance of the Purchase Right of Equity Interest: 

 

(a) Party B shall supervise and urge Party C to convene the shareholders meeting, and duringthe meeting, to pass the decision or resolution to transfer the equity interest from Party B to Party A and/or the Designated Persons; 

 

(b) Party B shall, upon the terms and conditions of this agreement and the Notice of Purchase of Equity Interest, enter into Equity Interest Transfer Agreement with PartyA (or, in applicable situation, the Designated Persons); and 

 

(c) The relatedparties shall execute all other requisite contracts, agreements or documents, acquire all requisite approval and consent of the government, and, without any security interest, perform all requisite action to transfer the valid ownership of thePurchased Equity Interest to Party A and/or the Designated Person, and to cause Party A and/or the Designated Person to be the registered owner of the Purchased Equity Interest. For this and this agreement, “Security Interest” has themeaning of security, mortgage, right or interest of the third party, any purchase right of equity interest, right of acquisition, prior purchase right, right of set-off, ownership detainment or other security arrangements. To further define themeaning, it does not include any security interest subject to this agreement or the equity interest pledge contract of Party B. As described in this and this agreement, “the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement of Party B” has the meaning ofthe Equity Interest Pledge Agreement entered into by Party D and Party B dated as of the execution date of this agreement. According to the said agreement, to secure Party C to perform the obligations subject to the Exclusive Technology ServiceAgreement entered into between Party C and Party D, Party B pledges all its equity interest in Party C to Party D. 

 

1.5 *Payment*

 

Whereas contemplated in the Loan Agreement, any proceeds gained by Party B from the transfer of its equity interest in Party C shall be used, according to the Loan Agreement, as the payment to its loan borrowed fromParty A. Therefore, except otherwise other arrangement shall be applied according to the applicable law, upon the performance of the Purchase Right of Equity Interest by Party A, the Purchase Price shall be used as the payment for the principal aswell as the interests from Party B to Party A subject to the loan. Party A does not need pay the Purchase Price to Party B anymore. 

**Chapter Two.*****Promises Relating Equity Interest*******

 

2.1 *Promises Relating Party C*

 

Party C hereby promise: 

 

(a) Without prior written consent by Party A, not, in any form, to complement, change or renew the articles of the association of Party C,to increase or decrease registered capital of the corporation, or to change the structure of the registered capital in any other forms; 

 

(b) Following kind finance and business standard and tradition, to maintain the exist of the corporation, prudently and effectively operate business and process affairs;

 

(c) Without prior written consent by Party A, not, dated from the executiondate of this agreement, to sale, transfer, mortgage or dispose in any other form any assets, legitimate or beneficial interest of business or income of Party C, or to approve any other security interest set on it; 

 

(d) Without prior written notice by Party A, no debt shall take place, be inherited, beguaranteed, or be allowed to exist, with the exception of: (i) debt from normal or daily business but not from borrowing; and (ii) debt having been disclosed to Party A or having gained written consent from Party A; 

 

(e) To normally operate all business to maintain the asset value of Party C, without doing orotherwise any action that sufficiently affects the operation and asset value; 

 

(f) Without prior written consent by Party A, not to enter into any material contract, with the exception of the contract entered into during the normal business (as in this paragraph, a contract with a value more than a hundred thousandYuan (RMB100,000) shall be deemed as a material contract); 

 

(g) Without priorwritten consent by Party A, not to provide loan or credit loan to anyone; 

 

(h)Upon the request of Party A, to provide all operation and finance materials relevant to Party A; 

 

(j) Without prior written consent by Party A, Party C shall not to merger or associate with any person, or purchase any Person or invest in any Person; 

 

(k) To notify Party A immediately the occurrence or the probable occurrence of the litigation, arbitration or administrative procedurerelated to the assets, business and income of Party C; 

 

(l) In order to keepthe ownership of Party C to all its assets, to execute all requisite or appropriate documents, do all requisite or appropriate action, and advance all requisite or appropriate accusation, or make requisite or appropriate plea for all claims;

 

(m) Without prior written notice by Party A, not to assign stock interests toshareholders in any form, but upon the request of Party A, to assign all its assignable profits to their own shareholders; 

 

2.2 *Promises Relating Party B*

 

**Party B promises:**

 

(a) Without prior written consent by Party A, as of the execution date of this agreement, not to sell, transfer, mortgage or dispose in any other form any legitimate or beneficial interest of equity interest, or toapprove any other security interest set on it, with the exception of the pledge set on the equity interest of Party B subject to Equity Interest Pledge Agreement of Party B; 

(b) Without prior written notice by Party A, not to cause the Board of Shareholders commissioned by Party C not toapprove or execute any approving document to, sale, transfer, mortgage or dispose in any other form any legitimate or beneficial interest of equity interest, or to approve any other security interest set on it, with the exception of such actionsmade to Party A or the designated person of Party A; 

 

(c) To cause the Board ofShareholders commissioned by it not to approve or execute any approving document for Party C to, with no prior written notice by Party A, merger or associate with any person, or purchase any person or invest in any person; 

 

(d) To notify Party A the occurrence or the probable occurrence of the litigation,arbitration or administrative procedure related to the equity interest owned by it; 

 

(e) To cause the Board of Shareholders commissioned by it to vote to approve the transfer of the Purchased Equity Interest subject to this agreement; 

 

(f) In order to keep its ownership of the equity interest, to execute all requisite or appropriate documents, do all requisite or appropriate action, and advance allrequisite or appropriate accusation, or make requisite or appropriate plea for all claims; 

 

(g) Upon the request of Party A, to commission any person designated Party D to be the member of the board of directors of Party C; 

 

(h) Upon the request of Party A at any time, to immediately transfer its equity interest to the representatives designated by Party Aunconditionally and at any time, and abandon its prior purchase right of such equity interest transferring to another available shareholder; 

 

(i) To prudently comply with the terms and conditions of this agreement and other agreements entered into totally or respectively by Party B, Party C and Party A., toactually perform all obligations under these agreements, without doing or otherwise any action that sufficiently affects the validity and enforceability of these agreements; 

 

2.3 *Promises Relating Party D*

 

Considering Party B has impawned the stockholder’s right of Party C, hold by Party B, to Party D. Party D agrees that in case Party A exercises the right ofpurchasing stockholder’s right during the validity period of Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, Party B shall transfer the stockholder’s right to Party A or other appointed personnel in accordance with the agreement, the aforesaidtransformation shall not be bound by the regulation that the transformation of Party B’s stockholder’s right shall be limited, in the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement. 

 

3. *Representations and Warranties*

 

***Representations and Warranties of Party B and Party C***

 

Dated as of the execution date of this agreement and every transferring date, ***Party B and************Party C***hereby represents and warrantstogether and respectively to Party A as follows: 

 

(a) It has the power andability to enter into and deliver this agreement, and any equity interest-transferring agreement (“Transferring Agreement”, respectively) having it as a party, for every single transfer of the purchased equity interest according to thisAgreement, and to perform its obligations under this agreement and any Transferring Agreement. upon execution, this agreement and the Transferring Agreements having it as a party constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of it enforceableagainst it in accordance with its terms; 

 

(b) The execution, delivery of thisagreement and any Transferring Agreement and performance of the obligations under this agreement and any Transferring Agreement do not: (i) cause to violate 

any relevant laws of PRC; (ii) constitute a conflict with its articles of association or other organizational documents;(iii) cause to breach any contract or instruments to which it is a party or having binding obligation on it, or cause to breach any contract or instruments to which it is a party or having binding obligation on it; (iv) cause to violate relevantauthorization of any consent or approval to it and/or any continuing valid condition; or (v) cause any consent or approval authorized to it to be suspended, removed, or into which other requests be added; 

 

(c) Party C bears the kind and sellable ownership of all assets. Party C does not set anysecurity interest on the said assets; 

 

(d) Party C does not have anyundischarged debt, with the exception of (i) debt from its normal business; and (ii) debt having been disclosed to Party A and having gained written consent from Party A; 

 

(e) Party C abides by all laws and regulations applicable to the purchase of assets; 

 

(f) No litigation, arbitration or administrative procedure relating to equity interest,assets of Party C or the corporation is underway or to be decided or to probably take place; and 

 

(g) It bears the kind and sellable ownership of its equity interest, it does not set any security interest on the said assets. 

 

4. *Effective Date*

 

This agreement shall be established from the execution date of this agreement, and come into effect as of the date of Party B’s completing the change of equity interest transferred to Party B from Qu Zhi and hasa validity period of 20 years. 

 

5. *Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution*

 

5.1 *Applicable Law*

 

The execution, validity, construing and performance of this agreement, and resolution of thedisputes under this agreement, shall be in accordance with officially published and publicly attainable laws of PRC (“PRC laws”). Issues not regulated by the PRC laws shall apply international legal rules and conventions. 

 

5.2 *Dispute Resolution*

 

(a) Any dispute, tangle or claim arising from the agreement or relating with the agreement (including any issue relating with the existence,validity or termination of the agreement) should be submitted to China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (the “Arbitration Commission”). Arbitration Commission shall conduct arbitration in accordance with the currenteffective rules of arbitration application. The arbitration award shall be final and binding upon both parties. 

 

(b) Arbitration place shall be Beijing, PRC. 

 

(c) Arbitration language shall be English. 

 

(d) The court of arbitration shall compose of three arbitrators. Both parties should respectively appoint an arbitrator, the chairman of the court of arbitration shall beappointed by both parties through consultation. In case both parties do not coincide in opinion of the person selected for the chief arbitrator within twenty days from the date of their respectively appoint a arbitrator, the director of ArbitrationCommission shall have right to appoint the chief arbitrator. The chief arbitrator shall not be Chinese citizen or United State citizen. 

(e) Both parties agreed that the court of arbitration established according to the regulation shall have right to provideactually performed relief on the proper situation according with PRC Law (including but not being limited to Law of Contract of the People’s Republic of China). For the avoidance of doubt, both parties further that any court having jurisdiction(including PRC Court) shall carry out the arbitral award of actual performance issued by the court of arbitration. 

 

(f) Both parties agreed to conduct arbitration in accordance with this regulation, and irrepealably abstain the right to appeal, reexamine or prosecute to national courtor other administration of justice in any form, and the precondition shall be that the aforesaid waiver is effective. However the waiver of both parties does not include any post-arbitration injunction, post-arbitration distress warrant or othercommand issued by any court having jurisdiction (including PRC Court) for terminating the arbitration procedure or carrying out any arbitral award. 

 

6. *Taxes and Expenses*

 

Every party shall, according to laws of PRC, bear any and all transferring and registering taxes, costs and expenses for the preparation and execution of this Agreement and all Transferring Agreements, and thosearising from or imposed on the party, to complete the transactions of this Agreement and all Transferring Agreements. 

 

7. *Notices*

 

This agreement requests that notices or other communications sent by any party or corporation shall be written in Chinese or English, and be delivered in person, by mail or telecopy to other parties at the followingaddresses or other specified addresses noticed by other parties to the party. The date deemed to be duly given or made shall be confirmed as follows: (a) for notices delivered in person, the date of delivery shall be deemed as having been duly givenor made; (b) for notices delivered by mail, the tenth day of the delivery date of air certified mail with postage prepaid (as shown on stamp) or the fourth day of the delivery date to an internationally certified delivery institution shall be deemedas having been duly given or made; and (c) for notices by telecopy, the receipt date showed on the delivery confirming paper of the relevant document shall be deemed as having been duly given or made. 

 

**Party A:**eLong.Inc 

**Address:**4th Floor, Hutchence David Century Garden, George Town, GrandCayman, Cayman Islands. 

**Fax:**

**Tel:**

**Receiver:**

**Addressee:**

 

**Party B:**Veronica Chen 

**Address:**

**Fax:**

**Tel:**

 

**Party C:**Beijing eLong Information Technology Co.,Ltd 

**Address:**109, 1st Floor, Ji An Mansion, 68 South Xue Yuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing. 

**Fax:**64312801 

**Tel:**58602288 

**Addressee::** Justin Tang 

 

**Party D:**eLongNet Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 

**Address:**10 Jiu Xian Qiao Road, ChaoyangDistrict, Beijing 

**Fax:**64312801 

**Tel:**58602288

**Addressee::**Justin Tang and (    )****

8. *Confidentiality*

 

Both the parties admit and confirm any oral or written materials exchanged by the parties relating to this agreement are confidential. Both parties shall maintain thesecrecy and confidentiality of all such materials. Without written approval by the other party, the party shall not disclose to ay third party any relevant materials, but with the exception of the following: (a) the public know or may know suchmaterials (but not disclosed by the party accepting the materials); (b) materials needed to be disclosed subject to ordinance or listing rules or precedents of stock exchange; or (c) any party necessarily discloses materials to its legal orfinancial consultant relating the transaction of this agreement, and this legal or financial consultant shall have the obligation of confidentiality similar to that set forth in this. The breach of the obligation of confidentiality by staff oremployed institution of any party shall be deemed as the breach of such obligation by that party, and by whom the liabilities for breach shall be bored. No matter this agreement may terminate by any reason, this shall continue in force and effect.

 

9. *Further Warranties*

 

The Parties to the agreement agree to promptly execute documents reasonably requisite to theperformance of the provisions and the aim of this agreement or documents beneficial to it, and to take actions reasonably requisite to the performance of the provisions and the aim of this agreement or actions beneficial to it. 

 

10. *Miscellaneous*

 

10.1 *Amendment, Modification and Supplement*

 

Upon amendment, modification and supplement of this agreement shall be subject to the written agreement executed by each party. 

 

10.2 *Observance of Laws and Regulations*

 

The parties of the contract shall observe and make sure the operation of each party fullyobserve all laws and regulations of PRC officially published and publicly gainable. 

 

10.3 *Entire Contract*

 

Except the written amendment, supplementand modification of this agreement upon the date of execution, this agreement shall constitute the entire contract of the parties hereto with respect to the object hereof and supersedes all prior oral or written agreements, representation andcontracts with respect to the object hereof. 

 

10.4 *Headings*

 

The headings contained in this agreement are for convenience of reading only and shallnot affect the interpretation, explanation or in any other way the meaning of the provisions of this agreement. 

 

10.5 *Language*

 

This agreement is executed in Chinese in quadruplication. 

 

10.6 *Severability*

 

If any one or moreprovisions of this agreement are judged as invalid, illegal or nonenforceable in any way according to any laws or regulations, the validity, legality and enforceability of other 

provisions hereof shall not be affected or impaired in any way. All parties shall, through sincere consultation, urge toreplace those invalid, illegal or nonenforceable provisions with valid ones, and from such valid provisions, similar economic effects shall be tried to reach as from those invalid, illegal or non-enforceable provisions. 

 

10.7 *Successor*

 

This Contract shall bind and benefit the successor of each party and the transferee allowed by each party. 

 

10.8 *Survival*

 

(a) Any obligation taking place or at term hereof prior to the end or termination ahead of the end of this agreement shall continue in forceand effect notwithstanding the occurrence of the end or termination ahead of the end of the agreement. 

 

(b) Item 5, Item 7 and Item 10.8 hereof shall continue in force and effect after the termination of this agreement. 

 

10.9 *Waiver*

 

Any party to this agreement may waive the terms and conditions of this agreement. Such waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party or parties to be bound thereby. Any waiverby a party to the breach hereof by other parties in certain situation shall not be construed as a waiver to any similar breach by other parties in other situation. 

 

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IN WITNESS THEREFORE, the parties hereof have caused this agreement to be executed by Parties to this Agreement orthrough their duly authorized representatives as of the date first written above. 

 

**Party A:**eLong, Inc. 

**Signature of Authorized Representative:** /s/ 

 

**Party B:**Veronica Chen 

**Signature:** /s/ 

 

**Party C:**Beijing eLong InformationTechnology Co., Ltd 

**Signature of Authorized Representative:** /s/ 

**Official Seal:** /s/ 

 

**Party D:**eLongNet InformationTechnology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 

**Signature of Authorized Representative:** /s/ 

**Official Seal:** /s/