UNITED STATES
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 2011
Commission File Number: 000-50984
eLong, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Block B, Xingke Plaza Building
10 Middle Jiuxianqiao Road
Chaoyang District
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015, People’s Republic of China
(Address of principal executive offices)
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On June 10, 2011 (Beijing time), the Board of Directors of eLong, Inc. (NASDAQ: LONG), a
leading online travel service provider in China, accepted the resignations of Ms. Lily Cheng and
Mr. Justin Tang from the Board of Directors of the Company, and appointed two new Directors to fill
the vacancies thus created. The two new directors are:
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Dara Khosrowshahi, who has served as a director and the Chief Executive Officer
of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE), the world’s largest online travel company, since
Expedia’s spin-off from IAC/InterActiveCorp in August 2005. Prior to the spin-off,
Mr. Khosrowshahi served in a number of leadership capacities at IAC, including as
Chief Executive Officer of IAC Travel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of IAC, Executive Vice President of Operations and Strategic Planning, and
President of USA Networks Interactive, a division of IAC. Mr. Khosrowshahi joined
IAC in 1998 as Vice President of Strategic Planning. Prior to joining IAC, Mr.
Khosrowshahi served as Vice President at Allen & Company LLC. Mr. Khosrowshahi holds
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Xiaoguang Wu, who is Senior Executive Vice President and President of Internet
Services of Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK:00700). Mr. Wu joined Tencent in 1998,
led the development and product planning for Tencent’s core product, the QQ IM
client software and has served as the Project Manager for the research and
development team of QQ, the General Manager for IM product and the General Manager
for the internet business division. Currently, Mr. Wu is in charge of the Company’s
various Internet services including community, community value-added services and
e-commerce. Mr. Wu has accumulated rich experience in internet product research and
development, design planning, operations and marketing. He received a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University and an EMBA from the
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The Board of Directors also expressed appreciation to Ms. Cheng and Mr. Tang for their service
to the Company.
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About eLong, Inc.
eLong, Inc. (NASDAQ: LONG — News) is a leading online travel service provider in China.
Headquartered in Beijing, eLong empowers consumers to make informed travel decisions by providing
convenient online, 24-hour call center and mobile hotel, air ticket and vacation package booking
services as well as easy to use tools such as maps, destination guides, photographs, virtual tours
and user reviews. eLong offers consumers the largest hotel product portfolio with a selection of
more than 20,000 hotels in 700 cities across China and 140,000 international hotels in more than
100 countries worldwide, and the ability to fulfill domestic and international air ticket
reservations in over 80 major cities across China. eLong is a subsidiary of Expedia, Inc.
(NASDAQ:EXPE).
eLong operates websites including http://www.elong.com, http://www.elong.net and http://www.xici.net.
For further information, please contact:
eLong, Inc.
Investor Relations
ir@corp.elong.com
+86-10-6436-7570