The board of directors of China Everbright Limited announced that Ms. Pan Wenjie (?Ms. Pan?) has resigned as a Non-executive Director in order to devote more time to her other business commitment with effect from 22 March 2024. The Board announced that Mr. Wong Chun Sek Edmund (?Mr. Wong?) has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director, a member of each of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, the Nomination Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Strategy Committee of the Board with effect from 22 March 2024. Mr. Wong Chun Sek Edmund, aged 39, is an independent non-executive Director, a member of each of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, the Nomination Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Strategy Committee of the Board.

Mr. Wong is an independent non-executive director of Confidence Intelligence Holdings Limited, High Fashion International Limited, and China Merchants Land Asset Management Co., Limited. He served as an independent non-executive director of Deyun Holding Ltd. from December 2020 to September 2022 and as an independent non-executive director of InvesTech Holdings Limited from June 2017 to May 2021. Mr. Wong is currently a member of the Legislative Council, Election Committee and Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Mr. Wong has more than 15 years of experience in accounting, taxation and auditing. He joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as an audit associate in September 2007 and left as an audit senior in November 2011. Mr. Wong has joined Patrick Wong C.P.A. Limited as an audit manager since February 2012 and has been its practicing director since March 2013.

Mr. Wong is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom, The Society of Chinese Accountants and Auditors, The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Independent Non-executive Director Association, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute and The Chartered Governance Institute. Mr. Wong obtained a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy from Hong Kong Baptist University in November 2007, a Master's degree of Science in Applied Accounting and Finance from Hong Kong Baptist University in November 2013, a Master's degree in Business Administration from Hong Kong Metropolitan University (formerly known as The Open University of Hong Kong) in October 2016, a Master's degree in Corporate Governance from Hong Kong Metropolitan University in August 2017 and a Master's degree in Professional Accounting from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2021. The Board announced that Dr. Chung Shui Ming Timpson (?Dr. Chung?), an INED, is subject to retirement by rotation at the AGM in accordance with the Articles.

Dr. Chung has informed the Company that as he has been an INED for more than 9 years and with an aim to promote good corporate governance of the Company and healthy development of the Board, he will not seek re-election and will therefore retire from his position as an INED, the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Board, and a member of each of the Nomination Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Strategy Committee of the Board at the conclusion of the AGM. With effect from the retirement of Dr. Chung at the conclusion of the AGM, Mr. Wong will act as the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Board.