Origin Agritech Ltd. announced that Mr. Rong Chen and Mr. Aiyang Wang will join the company's Board of Directors as independent board members. Mr. Rong Chen, founder of Elastos Foundation, is a technology industry veteran of over 30 years with 18 years of entrepreneurial experience and 8 years of operating system development experience at Microsoft. Mr. Chen launched Elastos Foundation in June, 2017 for cryto-tokens and developing Blockchain technologies. Mr. Chen founded Kortide in Beijing in 2000 to design and implement Elastos, an advanced operating system for a secure Internet, from scratch. Mr. Aiyang Wang, one of the Founders and CEO of Shenzhen DB Investment Management Co. Ltd., has over 15 years of experience in multi-functional management, capital market operations and cross-border mergers & acquisitions. During 2000 and 2014, Mr. Wang held various positions, including the Secretary of Board, and General Manager of Office in Shum Yip Group Limited, which holds several public listed companies including Shenzhen Investment (00604.HK) and Pingan Insurance (02318.HK, 601318.SZ).