SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
6-K
Report
of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For
the
month of June, 2007
CHINA
SOUTHERN AIRLINES COMPANY LIMITED
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
Jichang
Road
Guangzhou,
Guangdong 510405
People’s
Republic of China
(Address
of principal executive offices)
(Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
Form
20-F. xForm
40-F. o
(Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained
in
this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant
to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)
Yes o
No. x
(If
"Yes"
is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-________.)
China
Southern Airlines Company Limited (the "Company") on June 26, 2007 published
the
announcement on the Company’s website at http://www.cs-air.com/en/nhsj/04/index.htm,
and
Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s website at http://main.ednews.hk/listedco/listconews/search/search_active_main.asp,
respectively, with respect to the pending litigation against the Company. A
copy
of the English announcement is included in this Form 6-K of the
Company.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
CHINA
SOUTHERN AIRLINES COMPANY LIMITED
By
/s/
Su
Liang
Name:
Su
Liang
Title:
Company Secretary
Date:
June 27, 2007
Announcement
of China Southern Airlines Company Limited
This
announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.09(2) of the Listing
Rules.
China
Southern Airlines Company Limited (hereinafter referred as the “Company”) and
all the members of its board of directors confirm the truthfulness, accuracy
and
completeness of the contents of this announcement and jointly and severally
accept responsibility for any false representation, misleading statement
or
material omission contained herein.
Recently,
the High People’s Court of Guangdong Province served a court summons on the
Company with respect to the lawsuit concerning a contractual dispute filed
against the Company by Taiwan J & P International Tours Co., Ltd. and Taiwan
China Southern Aviation Travel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the
“Plaintiffs”).
In
August
2004, the Company entered into a cooperation agreement with an appendix attached
thereto with the Plaintiffs and, in September 2004, Nan Lung Travel &
Express (H.K.) Ltd., a sales agency of the Company in Hong Kong, entered
into an
air ticket sales agency agreement with the Plaintiffs, the performance of
both
of which agreements has been completed. However, the Plaintiffs have filed
a
lawsuit against the Company for the so-called liquidated damages for breach
of
the provisions on air ticket sales commissions and other payments under those
two agreements, which totals HKD107,133,769.92. According to the above-mentioned
summons issued by the High People’s Court of Guangdong Province, the parties to
this lawsuit are to exchange evidence on July 25, 2007 and a formal court
session is to be held on July 30, 2007. The Company is now in the process
of
retaining legal counsels and will form a team to actively defend
itself.
Based
on
the evidence now available, the Company believes that this lawsuit will not
have
any material effect on the business operations and financial position of
the
Company.
By
order
of the Board
China
Southern Airlines Company Limited
Su
Liang
Company
Secretary
Guangzhou,
June 26, 2007
As
at
the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company include Liu Shao
Yong, Li Wen Xin, Wang Quan Hua, Zhao Liu An, Si Xian Min, Tan Wan Geng, Xu
Jie
Bo and Chen Zhen You as executive Directors; and Peter Lok, Wei Ming Hai,
Wang
Zhi and Sui Guang Jun as independent non-executive Directors.