Adopted at the Fifth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on December 29, 1993; amended for the first time in accordance with the Decision on Revision of the Company Law of the People's Republic of China made at the 13th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on December 25, 1999; amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision on Revision of the Company Law of the People's Republic of China made at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress on August 28, 2004; and revised at the 18th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on October 27, 2005.