HONG KONG: Minority shareholders of Hong Kong-listed CITIC Pacific Ltd have approved a landmark deal to acquire US$36bil of assets from its state-owned parent CITIC Group Corp, China’s biggest and oldest financial conglomerate.
The go-ahead clears the way for the purchase of practically all of the conglomerate’s assets. In doing so, shareholders endorsed not just China’s ambition to reform its state-owned enterprises.
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