Cui Fan is the independent non-executive Director of the Company and the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and the member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee of the Board. Mr. Cui graduated from The London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom with a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a master degree in International Business Law. Currently, Mr. Cui serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor in the International Trade Department at the School of International Trade and Economics, and the Chief Expert of the Hainan Research Institute of the University of International Business and Economics. He also serves as the Director of the Research Department (研究部) at the China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, an expert of the Global Value Chain Expert Group of the Advisory Committee for Economic & Trade Policy (經貿政策諮詢委員會全球價值鏈專家組) of the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC, the Executive Lead of the Expert Committee on International Financial Studies (國際財經研究專家工作室) of the Ministry of Finance of the PRC, the Chairman of the Compliance Working Committee (合規工作委員會) of the China Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Association, an arbitrator of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, and the Senior Advisor of Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP. Mr. Cui was appointed as the independent non-executive director of the Company in June 2024.