The board of directors of Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited announced that Ms. Chan Siu Chee Sophia ("Ms. Chan") has been appointed as an independent non-executive director ("INED") of the Company with effect from 15 September 2023. Ms. Chan Siu Chee Sophia, aged 65, obtained Master Degrees in Education and Public Health from the University of Manchester and the Harvard University respectively and attained a doctorate degree in Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. Ms. Chan joined in the School of Nursing of the University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor, a founding member of the Department of Nursing Studies in 1995.

Afterwards, she focused on teaching, research and administrative management, serving as the professor and the head of the School of Nursing. She became the Assistant Dean of the Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 2004. Ms. Chan's research has gained international recognition as she was not only awarded the Honorary Fellow qualification by the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, but also the first nurse in Hong Kong who was awarded the Fellow by the American Academy of Nursing.

Ms. Chan served as the Under Secretary for Food and Health in 2012 to 2017, and was appointed as Secretary for Food and Health in 2017 to 2022, to participate in and take charge of the policy making and promotion. Ms. Chan currently is the Professor of Nursing and Senior Advisor in the President's office of the University of Hong Kong. The Board further announced the following appointment of member of each of the audit committee (the "Audit Committee"), the nomination committee (the "Nomination Committee") and the remuneration committee (the "Remuneration Committee") of the Company with effect from 15 September 2023: Mr. Chau On Ta Yuen ("Mr. Chau"), currently being an independent non-executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as a member of the Audit Committee; and Mr. Shea Chun Lok Quadrant ("Mr. Shea"), currently being an independent non-executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as a member of each of the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Following the aforesaid appointments, the Audit Committee comprises three independent non-executive directors namely Mr. Shea (chairman of the Audit Committee) and Mr. Guo Rui and Mr. Chau. The Nomination Committee comprises three members, one executive director namely Mr. Xiong Bin (chairman of the Nomination Committee) and two independent non-executive directors namely Mr. Shea and Mr. Guo Rui. The Remuneration Committee comprises three members, two independent non-executive directors namely Mr. Guo Rui (chairman of the Remuneration Committee) and Mr. Shea, and an executive director, Mr. Tung Woon Cheung Eric.