AsiaInfo Technologies Limited announced that Mr. XIN Yuesheng has been redesignated from a non-executive Director to an executive Director with effect from 28 December 2023. Mr. XIN Yuesheng, aged 53, was appointed as a non-executive Director in June 2018. Mr. XIN currently serves as a senior managing director of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited and the managing partner of its private equity arm CITIC Capital Partners.

He joined the firm in August 2002 and is responsible for the private equity investment business in China since 2004. Between December 1999 and August 2002, he served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Shanghai and the Washington, D.C. to develop business strategies for global clients. From August 1992 to April 1996, Mr. XIN also served as a deputy manager for China Leasing Co.

Ltd. (), the leasing company in China and a subsidiary of CITIC Group Corporation Ltd. Mr. XIN served as a director of Focus Media Information Technology Co. Ltd. () (listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange) from March 2016 to November 2016. He obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Peking University in July 1992 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School with honors in June 1999.

Mr. XIN joined the Group in August 2016. He has over 28 years of experience in finance and investment and is primarily responsible for providing professional opinion and judgment to the Board. He has accumulated extensive management and strategic planning experience, particularly in the areas of corporate management, strategic planning and investment and financing, and has brought valuable advice and perspectives to the Board in the past.

Following the redesignation of Mr. XIN from a non-executive Director to an executive Director, he will be primarily responsible for assisting the Company in strategic direction and planning. His past management experience and expertise, as well as his years of accumulation in strategic planning, will be beneficial to the Company in enhancing its management standard, strengthening its synergy and expanding its competitive advantages. The Board further announces that Mr. DING Jian has been redesignated from an executive Director to a non-executive Director with effect from 28 December 2023.

Below are the biographical details of Mr. DING: Mr. DING Jian, aged 58, was appointed as an executive Director in June 2018. Mr. DING joined the Group in January 2014. Mr. DING has over 17 years of experience in investment in the telecommunications, media and technology industries.

Mr. DING served as the chairman of the board of AsiaInfo-Linkage Inc. between April 2003 and July 2010, and has also served as a co-chairman since July 2010. Mr. DING is currently a managing director and general partner of GSR Ventures, a venture capital fund, a role in which he has served since June 2005. Mr. DING has been serving as an independent non-executive director of Baidu Inc. () (listed on NASDAQ and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited) since August 2005.

Mr. DING served as an independent director of Huayi Brothers Media Corporation (listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange) from March 2011 to August 2017. Mr. DING obtained a Master of Library Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in September 1990.