The board of directors of Xinyuan Property Management Service (Cayman) Ltd. announced that Ms. Zhao Xia has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director and a member of the audit committee of the Company with effect from 8 April 2024. Ms. Zhao, aged 43, holds a bachelor?s degree in law from the Northwest University of Political Science and Law; a master?s degree in law (civil and commercial law) from the Wuhan University; a degree of master of common law from The University of Hong Kong; and a juris doctor degree from the Renmin University of China. Ms. Zhao was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant researcher at the China Institute of Applied Law of the Supreme Court of the People?s Republic of China (the ?PRC?) from September 2016 to March 2020 and fourth-level senior judge of the Shenzhen Intermediate People?s Court from July 2002 to June 2019.

She has also been an associate professor and master?s students? tutor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law since March 2020. Following the appointment of Ms. Zhao as a member of the Audit Committee, Mr. Ling Chenkai has ceased to be a member of the Audit Committee with effect from 8 April 2024.