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Zhao Hong has been the chief auditor of Guotai Junan since October 30, 2024. The stock source of Guotai Junan is the restricted stock incentive plan. Trading Guotai Junan shares occurred before he became the chief auditor of Guotai Junan. During the above-mentioned self-inspection, he bought and sold Guotai Junan shares, which was based on his own and his family's financial needs, and had nothing to do with this major asset restructuring. There was no case of using the inside information of this major asset restructuring to buy and sell Guotai Junan shares. Zhao Hong sold 20,000 shares of Guotai Junan A shares on October 16, 2024 and 52,700 shares of Guotai Junan A shares on October 17, 2024.According to the information issued by the above-mentioned institutions, there is no correlation between the above stock trading behavior and this major asset restructuring, and it does not involve the use of insider information for trading.

Eleven natural persons bought and sold A shares during the self-inspection period.On the evening of the 12th, Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities both announced that they had checked the transactions of insiders involved in this transaction in A shares of Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities, involving 11 related natural persons.

On September 5 this year, Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities announced at the same time that Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities are planning to merge Haitong Securities with Guotai Junan and issue shares to raise matching funds. This merger case has attracted much attention from the market.According to the announcement, according to the relevant documents, based on the verification scope of insider information of this transaction and the self-inspection of relevant institutions and personnel, and on the premise that the self-inspection report, relevant explanations and commitments and interview confirmation information issued by the insider information are true, accurate and complete, the buying and selling of A shares of Guotai Junan and/or Haitong Securities by the above-mentioned relevant institutions and personnel during the self-inspection period does not constitute insider trading, and their buying and selling of shares will not constitute a substantial legal obstacle to this transaction.On the evening of the 12th, Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities both announced that they had checked the transactions of insiders involved in this transaction in A shares of Guotai Junan and Haitong Securities, involving 11 related natural persons.