The Company and CSAHC entered into a ten year trademark licence agreement dated 22 May 1997 pursuant to which CSAHC acknowledges that the Company has the right to use the name “China Southern” and “China Southern Airlines” in both Chinese and English, and grants the Company a renewable and royalty free licence to use the kapok logo on a worldwide basis in connection with the Company’s airline and airline-related businesses. Unless CSAHC gives a written notice of termination three months before the expiration of the agreement, the agreement will be automatically renewed for another ten-year term. On 22 May 2007, the trademark licence agreement entered into by the Company and CSAHC was automatically renewed for 10 years.
(D)
LeasesThe Company (as lessee) and CSAHC (as lessor) entered into lease agreements as
follows:
(1) On 19 December 2006, the Company entered into a master lease agreement with CSAHC. The agreement is valid from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2008. Under such agreement, the Company leased CSAHC’s certain parcels of land, properties and buildings at various locations at Guangzhou, Haikou, Wuhan, Hengyang, Shashi (currently known as “Jingzhou”) and Nanyang. This lease agreement takes effect retrospectively on 1 January 2006, and is valid for a term of three years, the total rent payable is
RMB86,029,619.01, of which, the annual rents payable for the year 2006, 2007 and 2008 are RMB27,543,606.01, RMB28,657,966.99 and RMB29,828,046.01 respectively.
For the year ended 31 December 2008, the property management fee incurred by the Group amounted to RMB29,828,046.01 pursuant to such lease agreement.
The Company renewed the Property Lease Agreement with CSAHC on 29 December 2008. The agreement is valid from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011. Under such agreement, the annual rents payable to CSAHC are RMB37,148,660, RMB39,006,093 and RMB40,956,397.65 respectively.
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(2)
The Company and CSAHC entered into an indemnification agreement dated 22 May 1997 in which CSAHC has agreed to indemnify the Company against any loss or damage caused by or arising from any challenge of, or interference with, the Company’s right to use certain lands and buildings.
(3)
Due to the expiration on 31 December 2007 of the Land Use Rights Lease Agreement between the Company and CSAHC, the Property Lease Agreement between the Company and CSAHC, and China Northern Airlines, as well as the Property Lease Agreement between the Company and CSAHC and Xin Jiang Airlines on 12 November 2004, and in order to ensure normal operation of the Company, the Company, based on the actual leasing conditions of both parties, consolidate the three agreements into two agreements by the type of the leased properties, namely the Land Lease Agreement and the Property Lease Agreement. Those two agreements were entered into between the Company and CSAHC on 10 January 2008 and effective for a period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2010. As provided for in the Land Lease Agreement and the Property Lease Agreement, the lease areas of the related lands and properties were changed to 1,104,209.69 square metres and 197,010.37 square metres respectively, and their annual rentals were adjusted to RMB21,817,145.00 and RMB48,474,632.77, or an aggregate of RMB70,291,777.77 for each of the years from 2008 to 2010. The rentals were determined by reference to the market rents of the same district and on the basis that unit rental and payment terms remained unchanged.
For the year ended 31 December 2008, the rents for land lease and property lease incurred by the Group amounted to RMB21,817,145.00 and RMB48,474,632.77 respectively pursuant to such lease agreement.
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