Mr. Wu Rui (‘‘Mr. Wu’’), has been appointed as an executive Director and the vice chairman of the Board on 26 April 2019. Mr. Wu has extensive experience in international trading business and transnational investment. He graduated from Shanghai Customs College in July 1995 and subsequently joined the Ford Motor Company, a vehicle manufacturer based in the United States of America, as a customs specialist since September 1995, where he was responsible for analysing the import and export data, managing the supply chain of the company and conducting research on General Agreement on Tariff and Trade. From December 1998 to January 2002, Mr. Wu worked for GE Healthcare Corp. (formerly known as Amersham Pharmaceutical PLC), a company with principal business of research and development of medical technology and life science as the director of the global supply chain development (Far East) and was responsible for managing the supply chain of the company and the project ‘‘Sourcing from China’’.
From March 2002 to June 2015, he served as the general manager of Beijing Grand Integrity Merchants Company (a company principally engaged in trading of construction materials), where he was responsible for looking for global business opportunities in relation to new material of architecture. Since December 2015, Mr. Wu served as the managing director of Xinjiang Kaige Energy Company, a company which is principally engaged in clean energy business, where he was responsible for searching for global green technology business opportunities and handling new-energy-related projects of the company.