Lingbao Gold Group Company Ltd. announced that Mr. Huang Hui has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director and the chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and a member of each of the Audit Committee and Nomination Committee of the Company with effect from January 22, 2026. Mr. Huang, born in September 1976, was an associate professor from January 2010 to July 2014, and has been a professor in the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong since August 2014. Mr. Huang specializes in corporate law, securities regulation, financial law, etc.

Mr. Huang is an expert advisor of Shanghai Financial Court. He is also an adjunct professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, a Li Ka Shing visiting professor in McGill Law School, a ?Jingtian Scholar? honorary professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, and a guest professor at China University of Political Science and Law.

He serves as an arbitrator for the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. Mr. Huang has served as an independent non-executive director of Mao Geping Cosmetics Co. Ltd. since April 2024.

In addition, he was an independent non-executive director of China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited from October 2018 to August 2025. Mr. Huang obtained his bachelor?s degree in engineering in June 1998 and bachelor?s degree in law in July 1999 and his master?s degree in law in December 2001, all from Tsinghua University in the PRC, and a PhD in law from the University of New South Wales, Australia in December 2005. As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises five executive Directors, namely Mr. Chen Jianzheng, Mr. Wang Pinran, Mr. Xing Jiangze, Mr. He Chengqun and Ms. Zhao Li; two non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Zhang Feihu and Mr. Wang Guanran; and four independent non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Yeung Chi Tat, Mr. Bo Shao Chuan, Mr. Guo Michael Xinsheng and Mr. Huang Hui.