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(incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance with limited liability)

(Stock code: 285)

POLL RESULTS OF

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The Board is pleased to announce that the resolution set out in the notice of the EGM dated 24 December 2018 was duly passed by way of poll at the EGM held on 18 January 2019.

Reference is made to the notice of extraordinary general meeting of the Company (the "EGM") dated 24 December 2018 as well as the circular of the Company dated 24 December 2018 relating to the non-exempt continuing connected transaction of the Company (the "Circular"). Unless otherwise specified, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular.

The Board would like to announce the results of voting taken by way of poll at the EGM in pursuance to Rule 13.39(5) of the Listing Rules. Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the share registrar of the Company, acted as the scrutineer at the EGM for the purpose of vote-taking.

RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The EGM was held at the conference room of BYD Company Limited at No. 3009, BYD Road, Pingshan, Shenzhen, the PRC on Friday, 18 January 2019 at 10:00 a.m..

The number of issued Shares as at the date of the EGM was 2,253,204,500 Shares. BYD was interested in 1,481,700,000 Shares through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Golden Link Worldwide Limited ("Golden Link"). BF Trust is an employees' trust of the Company which Mr. WANG Nian-qiang and Mr. WU Jing-sheng, being the Directors of the Company, are beneficiaries of BF Trust, respectively. BF Gold Dragon Fly (PTC) Limited ("BF Trustee"), as the trustee of BF Trust, holds an aggregate of 137,081,650 Shares as at the date of the EGM through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Gold Dragonfly Limited ("Gold Dragonfly"). Mr. WANG Nian-qiang and Mr. WU Jing-sheng are respectively interested in 8,602,000 and 8,602,000 Shares of the Company through BF Trust and they are also respectively interested in 19,049,740 and 4,057,580 shares of BYD as at the date of the EGM. Mr. WANG Nian-qiang is also interested in 8,500,000 Shares of the Company as beneficial owner as at the date of the EGM. In view of the interest of BYD in the New Supply Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder, Golden Link and Mr. WANG Nian-qiang had abstained from voting of the resolutions at the EGM and Gold Dragonfly had also abstainedfrom voting of the resolutions at the EGM in respect of the interest owned by Mr. WANG Nian-qiang and Mr. WU Jing-sheng. The total number of Shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote for or against the resolutions proposed at the EGM was 745,800,500. There were no Shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote only against the resolutions at the EGM. No parties have stated their intention in the Circular to vote against the proposed resolution.

Set out below are the results of voting at the EGM, which was conducted by way of poll:

ORDINARY RESOLUTION

Number of votes cast (Percentage of total number of votes cast)

Total number of votes cast

For

Against

To approve the New Supply Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder and the New Caps

279,100,150 100%

0 0%

279,100,150 100%

As more than 50% of the votes held by the Shareholders and proxies who attended the EGM were cast in favour of the resolution, the resolution was passed as an ordinary resolution.

Full text of the resolution were set out in the notice of EGM dated 24 December 2018.

By Order of the Board

BYD Electronic (International) Company Limited

WANG Nian-qiang

Director

Hong Kong, 18 January 2019

As at the date of this announcement, the Board consists of Mr. WANG Nian-qiang and Mr. WANG Bo being the executive Directors, Mr. WANG Chuan-fu and Mr. WU Jing-sheng being non-executive Directors and Mr. CHUNG Kwok Mo John, Mr. Antony Francis MAMPILLY and Mr. QIAN Jing-jie being the independent non-executive Directors.

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