Hou Ziqiang

aged 84, was appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company in March 2005. He is a member of the Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee, and the Nomination Committee of the Company. Mr. Hou graduated from Peking University in 1958 with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Hou was a director of the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Hou was a secretary general of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.