BEIJING, May 24, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. ("Baidu" or the "Company")
(Nasdaq: BIDU; HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong
Internet foundation, today announced that it will hold its annual
general meeting of shareholders (the "AGM") at Baidu Campus, No.
10, Shangdi 10th Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of
China on June 27, 2023 at
10:00 a.m. (local time), for the
purposes of considering and, if thought fit, adopting the fifth
amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the
Company.
The board of Directors of the Company has fixed the close of
business on May 23, 2023,
Hong Kong time, as the record date
(the "Shares Record Date") of Class A ordinary shares with a par
value of US$0.000000625 each (the
"Class A Ordinary Shares") and Class B ordinary shares with a par
value of US$0.000000625 each (the
"Class B Ordinary Shares"). Holders of record of the Company's
Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares as of the
Shares Record Date are entitled to attend and vote at the AGM and
any adjourned meeting thereof.
Holders of record of American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs") as
of the close of business on May 23,
2023, New York time, who
wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A
Ordinary Shares must give voting instructions to The Bank of New
York Mellon, the depositary of the ADSs.
The notice of the AGM, which sets forth the resolution to be
submitted to shareholder approval at the meeting, is available on
the Company's website at https://ir.baidu.com.
The Company has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including
its audited financial statements, for the year ended December 31, 2022 (the "Form 20-F"), with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Form 20-F can be
accessed on the Company's website at https://ir.baidu.com, as well
as on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Company has also published an annual report (the "Hong Kong
Annual Report") today pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing
of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ("HKEx").
The Hong Kong Annual Report contains substantially the same
information as set forth in the Form 20-F and can be accessed on
the Company's investor relations website
at https://ir.baidu.com as well as the HKEx's website
at http://www.hkexnews.hk.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated
world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company
with strong Internet foundation, trading on NASDAQ under "BIDU" and
HKEX under "9888". One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A ordinary
shares.
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