China Resources Building Materials Technology Holdings Limited announced with effect from 15 March 2024. Madam ZENG Xuemin has notified the Board of her plan of retirement. Madam ZENG Xuemin has retired as an independent non-executive Director, a member of the strategy and investment committee of the Company (the "Strategy and Investment Committee"), a member of the remuneration and appraisal committee of the Company (the "Remuneration and Appraisal Committee") and a member of the audit committee of the Company (the "Audit Committee") with effect from 15 March 2024.

The Board announced that Madam YAN Bilan ("Madam YAN") has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director, a member of the Strategy and Investment Committee, a member of the Remuneration and Appraisal Committee and a member of the Audit Committee with effect from 15 March 2024. Madam YAN, aged 58, has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director, a member of the Strategy and Investment Committee, a member of the Remuneration and Appraisal Committee and a member of the Audit Committee with effect from 15 March 2024. She is a senior engineer at professorial level, and has been an expert enjoying special government allowances from the State Council since 2009, and was honoured one of the "Inaugural Top Ten Outstanding Women in the Building Material Industry" by the "China Building Materials" Magazine in the same year.

Since 1987, Madam YAN has been working at China Building Materials Academy Co. Ltd., served successively as the deputy director of the physics laboratory of the cement institute, the deputy director of the cement institute, the head of the technology and development department, the assistant to the president of the academy, and the deputy president of the academy, and has been a distinguished professor since July 2020. She is currently the Vice Chairperson of the National Cement Standardization Technology Committee and a member in the Inaugural Expert Committee of the China Building Materials Federation.

She was the Secretary General of the National Cement Standardization Technology Committee, presiding the preparation of the standardization development plan of the cement industry and organizing the formulation and revision of standards of the cement industry. She also served several positions, including a member of the general expert group of energy conservation and emission reduction in the industrial field of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, a member of the expert panel for formulating the guidelines for the national key research and development plan during the "Thirteenth Five-Year", a key special general expert member of the key national "Thirteenth Five-Year" research and development plan on "Technology Improvement and Industrialization of Key Basic Materials", a group member for preparing the "Fourteenth Five-Year" national science and technology innovation action plan for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and a member of the eighth Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, presided and participated in the research on subjects such as the national technology supporting plans during the "Eleventh Five-Year" and the "Twelfth Five-Year" and the National 973 Program, and presided the revision of over 30 national and cement industry standards. Madam YAN obtained a bachelor's degree of engineering from Tongji University, China in 1985 and a professional postgraduate certificate in inorganic non-metallic materials from the Wuhan University of Technology, China in 1987, and has over 35 years of experience in the management of the building materials industry.