China Conch Venture Holdings Limited announced that at the AGM held on 25 June 2024, the company approved the appointment of Ms. CHENG Yanlei as an independent non-executive Director. Ms. Cheng has also been appointed as a member of each of the remuneration and nomination committee (the Remuneration and Nomination Committee) and the audit committee of the Board with effect from the close of the AGM. Ms. CHENG Yanlei, aged 61, has extensive experience in the teaching and research work of the legal profession.

Ms. Cheng graduated from the Law Department of Anhui University, the PRC in 1985, promoted to a professor in 2000, became a doctoral candidate at the Law School of Wuhan University, the PRC in September 2013, and obtained a doctorate degree in law from Wuhan University, the PRC in June 2020. Ms. Cheng has successively served as the deputy director of the academic affairs office and deputy director of the human resources office of Anhui University, the PRC, director of the Institute of Higher Education of Anhui Province and Anhui University, and dean of the Law School of Anhui University, the PRC. She served as a member of the standing committee of the party committee and vice president of Anhui University, the PRC from May 2016 to March 2023.

She is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Law School of Anhui University, the PRC, and also the vice president of the Anhui Law Society, director of the Anhui Rule of Law and Social Security Research Centre and a member of the Steering Committee for Professional Teaching of Law in Colleges and Universities under the Ministry of Education. Ms. Cheng was an independent director of HaungShan Novel Co. Ltd. (, a company whose shares are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code: 002014)) from September 2010 to January 2016; an independent director of Offcn Education Technology Co.

Ltd. ((previously known as Wuhu Yaxia Automotive Corporation and Yaxia Automobile Corporation), a company whose shares are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange) from December 2012 to May 2015; and has been an independent director of Anhui Yingjia Distillery Co. Ltd. (, a company whose shares are listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 603198)) since September 2023.