China Tobacco International (HK) Company Limited announced that at the AGM held on May 17, 2024 approved to elect Ms. HE Junhua as an independent non-executive Director of the Company. Ms. He Junhua, aged 53, joined the Company on 17 May 2024 as an independent non-executive director of the Company. Ms. He has extensive skills, knowledge and professional experience in providing legal advice to corporations, investment banks and financial institutions on a broad range of capital markets and corporate transactions, with a particular focus on initial public offerings and listings, private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, bond issuances, financings as well as listing and regulatory compliance.

From April 2006 to January 2012, she was an associate and partner at Herbert Smith Freehills. From January 2012 to February 2015, she was a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP. She then worked as a partner at DLA Piper from February 2015 to March 2020.

Since March 2020, she has been a partner at Ashurst. Ms. He received a bachelor's degree in law from Shenzhen University in June 1992, a master's degree in law from the University of California, Berkeley in May 1997, and a juris doctor degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in May 2005. She is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong, and is also admitted as an attorney in California and New York in the United States.

The board of directors also announced that Mr. Chau Kwok Keung ceased to act as an independent non-executive director of the Company upon his retirement from the Board. CHANGE IN COMPOSITION OF BOARD'S COMMITTEES: Following the retirement of Mr. Chau and the appointment of Ms. He as an independent non-executive director of the Company, with effect from 17 May 2024: Mr. Chau ceased to be a member of the connected transactions control committee of the Company (the Connected Transactions Control Committee) and a member of the audit committee of the Company (the Audit Committee); and Ms. He was appointed as a member of the Connected Transactions Control Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.