Ms. LIU Chang, is a vice president and a member of the Executive Committee of the Company. She is also the deputy general manager of the Capital Management Centre (corporate finance and investor relations), the deputy general manager of the Office of the Board and Company Secretarial Department of the Company and the chairperson of Yipin Smart Living Technology Limited* (壹品慧生活科技有限公司), a subsidiary of the Company. Ms. LIU is also a director of China Gas Group Limited which has discloseable interest in the shares and underlying shares of the Company under the provisions of Division 2 and 3 of Part XV of the SFO and the relevant information is disclosed in the Directors’ Report. Ms. LIU was appointed as an executive Director of the Company in April 2020. Before such appointment, she was an alternate director to Mr. LIU Mingxing, a non-executive director of the Company, and his alternate member of the CGRC Committee from November 2017 to April 2020. Ms. LIU is in charge of value-added services business, digitalization development business, electricity and new energy business and also responsible for legal affairs, corporate finance and investor relations of the Group. From 2016 to 2017, Ms. LIU served as a legal associate at the office of Vitol Inc. in Houston, the USA. She has been admitted to practise law in the State of New York, the USA. She has obtained the qualification of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Certification for Cyber Security Competence awarded by the National Internet Emergency Center (CNCERT). Ms. LIU received a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance and a master’s degree in economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and 2012 respectively and a juris doctor degree in law from Cornell Law School in 2016. She is experienced in the areas of legal affairs, investor relations, business operations and management. Ms. LIU is the daughter of Mr. LIU Ming Hui, an executive Director of the Company, and the niece of Mr. LIU Mingxing, a non-executive Director of the Company.