"Since February 2016, the discipline, inspection and audit department of China Mobile Device has become a member of the conflict minerals working group and led the relevant due diligence work in order to streamline the conflict minerals due diligence procedures. In addition, since February 2016, conflict minerals research briefings have become part of the regular agenda at the general managers’ meeting and the reports of briefings are submitted regularly for the review and approval by the management of China Mobile Device. Since March 2017 China Mobile also established a dedicated team of personnel for handling this conflict minerals matter. This team comprises of personnel from China Mobile’s Legal and Regulatory Department, procurement division and the Device Subsidiaries. As the lead department in charge of compliance management, the Legal and Regulatory Department formulated a five-year compliance program in 2016 and required the relevant subsidiaries to initiate the process of establishing its conflict minerals compliance mechanism in accordance with the Conflict Minerals Rule as soon as practicable."