MTR Corporation Limited announced that Mr. Adi Lau Tin-shing, currently the Managing Director - Mainland China Business and Global Operations Standards of the Company, has informed the Company that he will retire from the Company upon the completion of his existing service agreement with the Company immediately after 31 December 2022. Accordingly, with effect from 1 January 2023, Mr. Lau will cease to be the Managing Director - Mainland China Business and Global Operations Standards and a Member of the Executive Directorate of the Company. Mr. Sammy Wong Kwan-wai, currently the Chief of Operating and Metro Segment of the Company, will be appointed as the Mainland China Business Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2023.

He will also become a Member of the Executive Directorate of the Company with effect from the same date. As at the date of this announcement, Mr. Wong is also a director of a member of the Company's group. Wong will be responsible for overseeing the Company's business portfolios in Mainland China and be accountable for their business performance.

He will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Wong (aged 49) possesses a wealth of solid railway experience. He joined the Company in 1995 as Operating Management Trainee and has since then advanced his career in the Company having taken on different positions.

Between 2017 and 2019, Mr. Wong took up the role of General Manager-Shenzhen Line 4 with responsibilities to oversee the day-to-day railway operations of Shenzhen Line 4 and lead the efforts in pursuing railway business opportunities in the Greater Bay Area.