The board of directors of Hua Hong Semiconductor Limited announced that Mr. Suxin Zhang, the chairman and an executive director of the company, has been appointed as alternate director to Mr. Jianbo Chen, a non-executive director of the company with effect from 20 December 2017. Mr. Zhang, aged 53, was appointed on 11 March 2016 as an executive director and chairman of the company and a member and chairman of the nomination committee of the company. Mr. Zhang is currently the chairman and secretary of the communist party of Shanghai Huahong (Group) Co. Ltd., a controlling shareholder of the company. He is also the chairman of Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Co. Ltd., a connected person of the company. Mr. Zhang is a director of two subsidiaries of the company, namely, Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. Mr. Zhang is also the chairman of the board of directors of Shanghai Huali Integrated Circuit Corporation and the legal representative and an executive director of an indirect subsidiary of the company, namely, Hua Hong Semiconductor (Wuxi) Limited. Mr. Zhang has extensive experience in hi-tech strategic development, energy strategy research and the power equipment industry.