Born in May 1953, an independent non-executive director, the chairperson of the Nomination Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Professor WANG Yijiang became an independent non-executive director of the Company in February 2016. He is currently the Professor of Economics and Human Resource Management and an Academic Associate Dean at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and a senior researcher at the National Center of Economic Research, Tsinghua University. He is currently also a director of Zhejiang Red Dragonfly Footwear Co., Ltd. (603116.SH); an independent non-executive director of China VAST Industrial Urban Development Company Limited (06166.HK), an independent director of Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Co., Ltd. (000069.SZ) and an independent director of Bank of Sanxiang. He served as a consultant of World Bank, a senior researcher of Chinese Economy Research Institute in Business Management School of Tsinghua University and vice president of the Chinese Economists Society. He was also a professor emeritus of Human Resource Management at the Carlson School of Management of University of Minnesota and a research fellow at the William Davidson Institute of Transition Economics of the University of Michigan. He was an independent director of Shenzhen ZQ Game Co., Ltd. (300052.SZ) from March 2014 to May 2020; and an independent non-executive director of Zhuhai Holdings Investment Group Limited (the withdrawal of listing of its shares from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange took effect in June 2021, then stock code: 00908.HK) from August 2015 to June 2021. His research areas cover human resource management, labour and personnel economics, comparative international management systems, economics of transition and emerging markets and economics of organisation, and his research findings have been frequently quoted. Professor WANG Yijiang graduated from the Peking University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and a Master’s Degree in International Economics in 1982 and 1985 respectively. He then pursued further studies and obtained a Master’s Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Economics at the Harvard University in 1989 and 1991 respectively.