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TAOP Makes Strategic Move to Expand Into South Asia and Southeast Asia Market

SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Taoping Inc. (NASDAQ: TAOP), a leading provider of internet-based ad distribution and display terminal sharing systems and online retail platform, today announced that it has entered into strategic cooperation agreements with two companies: Asia Taoping Pte. Ltd. (Asia Taoping) and Singapore Taoping Pte. Ltd (Singapore Taoping).

According to the agreements, as the local partners of TAOP, Asia Taoping will operate TAOP sharing new media in South Asia and Southeast Asia market, Singapore Taoping will operate TAOP sharing new media in Singapore market.

“The expansion into the Asia market is another important move of our overseas development plan following TAOP’s successful landing in Toronto last month.” said Mr. Jianghuai Lin, the Chairman and CEO of TAOP, “The booming E-commerce market and increasing mobile app usage in Southeast Asia creates the conditions for the success of our ‘Smart IoT Terminal – Taoping Net/App – Taoping E-store’ lifestyle media ecosystem. We look forward to seeing more local businesses benefiting from our platform.”

About Taoping Inc.

Taoping Inc. (formerly known as China Information Technology, Inc.) Nasdaq: TAOP, is a leading cloud-based ad terminal and service provider of digital advertising distribution network and new media resource sharing platform in the Out-of-Home advertising market of China. The Company provides the integrated end-to-end digital advertising solutions enabling customers to distribute and manage ads on the ad display terminals. Connecting cloud-based ad terminal owners, advertisers and consumers, it builds up a resource sharing “Smart IoT Terminal – Taoping Net/ App – Taoping E-store” media ecosystem to ultimately achieve the mission “our technology makes advertising and branding affordable and effective for everyone.” To learn more, please visit http://www.taop.com/.

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For further information, please contact:

Taoping Inc.

Iris Yan

Tel: +86-755-8370-4767

Email: IR@taoping.cn

http://www.taop.com/

or

Dragon Gate Investment Partners LLC

Tel: +1(646)-801-2803

Email: taop@dgipl.com