Born in November 1966, an executive director and a member of the Strategy Committee of the Company. Dr. YAN Xiaolin joined the Company in 2001. He is currently the CTO and senior vice president of TCL Technology Group Corporation, the president of TCL Research, a director and CTO of TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., and the chairperson of Guangdong Juhua Printing Display Technology Co., Ltd. From May 2001 to May 2004, he served as the senior engineer of display system product research institute, director of panel display technology research institute and deputy general manager of the R&D Centre of the Group. From May 2004 to October 2005, he was the CTO of Components Business Unit of TCL Technology Group Corporation and the deputy principal and acting principal of TCL Research. From October 2005 to present, he has been the president of TCL Research. From March 2017 to May 2020, Dr. YAN Xiaolin was a director of Amlogic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.(688099.SH). Dr. YAN Xiaolin is also an expert of the National Advisory Committee on New Materials Industry, the leader of new display direction of the National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC of the “12th Five-Year Plan”, the leader of new display direction of “Key Project on Strategic Advanced Electronic Materials” of the “13th Five-Year Plan”, the leader of new display direction of the implementation program of the “Key Project on New Display and Strategic Advanced Electronic Materials” of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, chairperson of TC 110 of International Electrotechnical Commission and the vice chairperson, president (Asia) of Organic and Printed Electronics Association and the fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID). Dr. YAN Xiaolin graduated from the Institute of Plasma Physics of Chinese Academy of Science with a Doctoral Degree in July 1999. From July 1999 to May 2001, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. YAN Xiaolin is currently a professor-level senior engineer. Dr. YAN Xiaolin was awarded the special allowance from the State Council of the PRC, the National Middle-aged and Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions in the National “Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project”, Outstanding Leader for Technology and Innovation in Special Support for High-level Talent Program by Organisation Department of the CPC Central Committee, the leader of the Innovative Team in Key Sector of Innovative Talent Promotion Program supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Guangdong Province’s Guangdong Hundred Talent, the Labour Model of Guangdong Province and the Outstanding National Technological Leader of Shenzhen. In addition, Dr. YAN Xiaolin completed a number of national projects as a person-in-charge, formulated one set of international standard and two sets of national standard of International Electrotechnical Commission as a group leader, as well as applied for 59 patents as the chief inventor, 33 of which were granted licenses, including 26 invention patents.