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Renzhi Shares Terminates Control Change, Chen Zehong Remains Actual Controller
Renzhi Shares announced on the evening of September 9 that the control change, which had been in planning for nearly four months, has been terminated due to changes in the external market environment and unmet transaction conditions. The controlling shareholder and actual controller Chen Zehong, along with his concert party Pingda New Materials, signed a termination agreement for the share transfer with Shanghai Chengshi Enterprise Management Partnership, mutually agreeing to rescind the original share transfer agreement. As of now, Chen Zehong and his concert party Pingda New Materials together hold 19.51% of the company's shares, and after the termination of the control change, Chen Zehong remains the actual controller of Renzhi Shares. In May this year, the two parties had agreed to transfer a total of 83.1491 million shares, approximately 19.51% of the total share capital, in two steps. In the first phase, Shanghai Chengshi would acquire 5.19% of the shares at 7 yuan per share, Chen Zehong would waive voting rights on the remaining shares, and in the second phase, the remaining 14.33% of shares would be transferred. After the transaction was completed, Cheng Dong, the actual controller of Shanghai Chengshi, would become the new actual controller. Shanghai Chengshi has paid Chen Zehong a deposit of 30 million yuan and transferred 270 million yuan to a joint escrow account, of which 115 million yuan has been released and paid to Chen Zehong. With the termination of the transaction, Chen Zehong will subsequently refund the amounts already received. Since the planning of the control change began, Renzhi Shares' stock price has fallen by more than 30%, closing at 4.87 yuan per share on September 9, with a market value of approximately 2.1 billion yuan.