The board of directors of Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited announced that Mr. Dai Xiaohu has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from November 30, 2022. Mr. Dai, aged 60, obtained a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from Tongji University in July 1985, and a doctorate degree in environment engineering from Department of Civil Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in February 1992. He is currently an independent non-executive director of China Conch Environment Protection Holdings Limited.

Mr. Dai worked in Germany for 23 years and returned to China as a full-time special expert of overseas high-level talents since 2009. He made many pioneering achievements in the fields of environmental engineering, pollution control, solid waste recycling, energy saving and emission reduction. He published more than 260 SCI papers and authorized more than 100 patented inventions.

Mr. Dai has been a director of the National Engineering Research Center for Urban Pollution Control of Tongji University since February 2010.