Million Hope Industries Holdings Limited announced that Dr. Zhang Wei has been appointed as an alternate director to Mr. Cha Mou Sing, Payson, the non-executive Chairman of the Company, with effect from 3 July 2019. Dr. Zhang, aged 64, is currently an executive director and the chief executive officer of Mingly Corporation. Mingly is a substantial shareholder of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance. Dr. Zhang is an independent non-executive director of Dadi International Group Limited (Stock Code: 8130), a non-executive director and an alternate director to Mr. Cha Mon Sing, Payson, the non-executive chairman of Hanison Construction Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 896), the securities of which are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Before he joined Mingly in 2011, he had taught Development Economics and Chinese Economy at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom since 2000. Hewas also the founding director of Economic Research Centre for Greater China in Cambridge. In 1980s, Dr. Zhang worked as a government official in the People's Republic of China, among the posts he held, there were Director of Mayor's Office in Tianjin, Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, Chairmanof Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone (TEDA), and Chairman of Committee of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Tianjin Municipal Government. He was also a member of the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.