RISE Education Cayman Ltd. announced the appointment of Ms. Jiandong Lu as its chief operating officer, a new position in the company. The appointment is effective as of September 28, 2018. Ms. Jiandong Lu will continue to serve on the board of directors of the company and will no longer act as a member of the company’s Audit Committee, the compensation committee or the corporate governance and nominating committee. Ms. Lu has been serving as a director of the company and a member of each of the company’s audit committee, the compensation committee and the corporate governance and nominating committee since October of 2017. The company also announced the appointment of Ms. Haiping Yan, Mr. Weili Hong and Mr. Jun Yan as new independent directors of the board. Ms. Haiping Yan will also serve as a member of the Nomination Committee. Mr. Weili Hong will also serve as the chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Mr. Jun Yan will also serve as a member of each of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. The appointment will take effect as of September 28, 2018. Ms. Haiping Yan, has been Tsinghua Academy Professor of Cross-cultural Studies, the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Director of Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Dean of the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures (IWLC) at Tsinghua University since 2014. Mr. Weili Hong has served as the President and Chief Research Officer of CMC Holdings from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Jun Yan has been general manager of strategic partnerships at Google China since 2017.