The board of directors of Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") held a meeting on 20 January 2020 to consider and approve the resolution in relation to the nomination of Mr. NG Kar Ling, Johnny ("Mr. Ng") by China Metallurgical Group Corporation, the controlling shareholder of the Company, as the independent non-executive director of the third session of the Board of the Company. Mr. Ng is currently an independent director of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation. He is concurrently a vice director member of the second session of the Independent Director Specialized Committee of China Association for Public Companies. Mr. Ng obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 and 1999, respectively. Mr. Ng joined KPMG (Hong Kong) in 1984 and became a partner in 1996. He subsequently became the vice chairman of KPMG (China) and retired in March 2016. He is currently a practising certified public accountant in Hong Kong, a practising auditor and certified public accountant in Macau, a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FCPA), a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), and a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA).