Cheetah Mobile Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Tao Zou as a director of the Company and the resignation of Dr. Hongjiang Zhang as a director of the Company, due to his intended retirement, effective December 1, 2016. Mr. Tao Zou has been appointed as a director of the Company, replacing Dr. Zhang, effective December 1, 2016. Mr. Zou, who has worked at Kingsoft for approximately twenty years, is currently an executive director and senior vice president of Kingsoft Corporation Limited as well as the chief executive officer of Seasun Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Kingsoft. Mr. Zou has also been appointed as the chief executive officer of Kingsoft, effective December 1, 2016. He graduated from Tianjin Nankai University in 1997.