EXHIBIT A FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENTLock-Up Agreement • August 21st, 2009 • Hartcourt Companies Inc • Services-business services, nec
Contract Type FiledAugust 21st, 2009 Company IndustryReference is made to that certain Plan of Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement (the “Definitive Agreement”), dated August 20, 2009 by and among The Hartcourt Companies, Inc., a Utah corporation (“Purchaser”), Maple China Education Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Hartcourt Education Investment Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a company existing under the Company Law of the People’s Republic of China and wholly owned subsidiary of Purchaser (“Purchaser Sub”), Sino-Canada Investment Group Inc., a company existing under the Company Law of the People’s Republic of China (“Sino-Canada”), Sino-Canada High School, a private educational non-enterprise institution existing under the laws of the People’s Republic of China, Wujiang Huayu Property Management Company, a company existing under the Company Law of the People’s Republic of China, Canadian Learning Systems Corporation, a company existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the individuals