10:04 JIAODA HIGHTECH<00300> - Announcement (3) a. To review financial statements, proposal for division of profit, settlement of losses and provides its comments to the Parties; b. To review the fulfillment of tasks given by the board of directors to the general manager; and c. To review the bookkeeping, assets, liabilities and debts of the JV Company. Each of the Parties could nominate 2 members with the chairman being appointed by the Company while the vice-chairman being appointed by Tos Varnsdorf, A.S. Each member of the control committee shall be entitled to one vote on any matter put to the committee for decision. (8) Tos Varnsdorf, A.S. undertakes not to open negotiation on investment, transfer of technology or production license in Chinese market for the same machine tools as being produced by the JV Company in the framework of the JV Agreement or sold to the Chinese market similar products manufactured by overseas companies in which it has a majority stake. (9) The board of directors of the JV Company shall decide the form of distribution of profit and subject to the approval of the control committee. (10) Except for the inability to fulfill the JV Agreement or continuously incurring heavy losses due to force majeure events, each of the Parties shall have the full right to terminate the JV Agreement and claim damages against the other Party if the JV Company is unable to continue its operations or achieve the business purpose due to the other Party's serious violation or non-implementation of the contractual obligations or failure to fulfill all its responsibilities and commitment. For accounting purposes, the JV Company will be accounted for as an investment in jointly controlled entity in the accounts of the Company. The cash portion of the registered capital to be injected by the Company will be financed by internal resource of the Company. There is currently no further capital, guarantees nor other commitments provided under the JV Agreement. It is the understanding between the Parties that the profit sharing shall be in proportion to the contribution of registered capital of each of the Parties. REASONS FOR THE ACQUISITION AND THE JOINT VENTURE The Directors are of the view that to team up with Tos Varnsdorf, A.S., an internationally renowned horizontal boring and milling machine manufacturer, could not only bring potential profits, resulting from the future operation of the JV Company, to the Group but it could also give valuable experience to the Group in cooperating with international corporation, which is crucial for the Group to lay a solid foundation for an international strategy. Moreover, the Group could learn from the foreign partner international management and operating standards so as to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Group's business operation as a whole. Further, such cooperation could improve the profile and popularity of the Group's products in the PRC market. INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY AND TOS VARNSDORF, A.S. The Company, formerly known as Kunming Machine Tool Company Limited and with its shares listed on both