The board of directors of the Kiu Hung International Holdings Limited announced that Mr. Hou Yunde has been appointed as the independent non-executive director with effect from 27 October 2020. He also has been appointed as the non-executive chairman of the board of directors with effect from 27 October 2020. Mr. Hou Yunde served as the deputy president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of the Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. He is currently the chief technical engineer of the Special Science Research Project on Control and Prevention of AIDS, Virus Hepatitis, and other Serious Infectious Diseases'' in China.