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EXHIBIT 3.1(a)
 
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF THE
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
FUQI INTERNATIONAL, INC.


Fuqi International, Inc. a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), pursuant to the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY as follows:
 
FIRST: The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended by deleting the Article V of the Certificate of Incorporation in its present form and substituting therefore a new Article V in the following form:
 
ARTICLE V
 
Section 1. Number of Authorized Shares. The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue shall be One Hundred and Five Million (105,000,000) shares. The Corporation shall be authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock, designated, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The Corporation shall be authorized to issue One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shares of Common Stock, each share to have a par value of $.001 per share, and Five Million (5,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, each share to have a par value of $.001 per share.
 
Section 2. Common Stock. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may authorize the issuance of shares of Common Stock from time to time. The Corporation may reissue shares of Common Stock that are redeemed, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation unless otherwise provided by law.
 
Section 3. Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may by resolution authorize the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock from time to time in one or more series. The Corporation may reissue shares of Preferred Stock that are redeemed, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation unless otherwise provided by law. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to fix or alter the designations, powers and preferences, and relative, participating, optional or other rights, if any, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including, without limitation, dividend rights (and whether dividends are cumulative), conversion rights, if any, voting rights (including the number of votes, if any, per share, as well as the number of members, if any, of the Board of Directors or the percentage of members, if any, of the Board of Directors each class or series of Preferred Stock may be entitled to elect), rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions, if any), redemption price and liquidation preferences of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, and to increase or decrease the number of shares of any such series subsequent to the issuance of shares of such series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding.
 
Section 4. Dividends and Distributions. Subject to the preferences applicable to Preferred Stock outstanding at any time, the holders of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends, payable in cash or otherwise, as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefore.
 
Section 5. Voting Rights. Each share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation.
 
SECOND: The amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation set forth in this Certificate of Amendment has been duly authorized and adopted by the Corporation’s Board of Directors and stockholders in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 of the DGCL.
 
 
 

 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officer this 21st day of February, 2007
 

By: _/s/YuKwai Chong____________________
        YuKwai Chong
        Chief Executive Officer & President