Mr Li Chang An, aged 76, was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company in January 2007. Mr Li was the Vice Secretary of Shangdong Provincial Party Committee from 1983 to 1987. He was further appointed as the Governor of Shangdong Province in June 1985. He was the Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council between 1987 and 1993, and was elected as an alternate member of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee and a member of Twelfth CPC Central Committee. Mr Li was the Executive Vice Chairman of China Poly Group Corporation from 1993 to 2001. He was also the Chairman of the board of China Orient Telecomm Satellite Company, Limited from 1995 to 2003.