The board of directors of APAC Resources Limited announced that Mr. Wang Hongqian ("Mr. Wang") has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of each of the Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee of the company with effect from 24 May 2019. Mr. Wang is currently a part-time adviser (industry mentor) of Master of Business Administration in Finance in School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, vice managing director of Expert Committee of China Association of International Engineering Consultants and commissioner of Committee on Foreign Investment. Mr. Wang worked as the secretary, team leader, deputy director, director and vice-president of Planning and Design Research Institute under the former Ministry of Coal Industry of China, vice-president of Beijing Coal Design and Research Institute (Group) (now known as Beijing Huayu Engineering Co. Ltd.), chairman and president of NFC Real Estate Development Co., Ltd, and chief engineer of China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co. Ltd. He was the president and a director of the board of China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd., between November 2002 and October 2018.