Annual Report 2021

51 ANNUAL REPORT 2021 Mr. Yim Kong aged 49, currently serves as the Chief Operational Officer and General Manager of China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd., shares of which are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Having graduated from International Trade at Xiamen University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, he went on to complete an MBA program cocreated by the Maastricht School of Management (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Shanghai Maritime University. Mr. Yim has rich managerial experience in the port and logistics industries. He served as the Chief Representative of the representative office of China Merchants Group Limited in Central Asia and the Baltic Sea and the General Manager of China-Belarus Industrial Park. He also served as the Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd, share of which are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy General Manager of the Company as well as the Commercial Director, Deputy General Manager, Standing Deputy General Manager and General Manager of Shekou Container Terminals Limited, a subsidiary of the Company, and worked for senior logistics management positions in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore and Swire Group of Hong Kong. He currently serves as Functional Constituency - Commercial (Third) member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of Election Committee and a member of the Logistics Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. He was a member of the Pilotage Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Hong Kong Marine Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He was appointed to the Board as Executive Director and Managing Director of the Company on 3 November 2021. Mr. Wang Zhixian aged 56, joined the Company in July 1992 and is the Executive Director of the Company. He is a Director of certain subsidiaries of the Company. He is also the Chairman of Liaoning Port Co., Ltd., shares of which are listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the HKSE and the Chief Executive Officer of Liaoning Port Group Limited. He graduated from Tianjin University, Shanghai Jiaotong University with a Master of Science. He obtained a Master’s Degree of Business Administration from Peking University. Mr. Wang has extensive management experience in port and shipping industry. Prior to joining the Company, he worked in Hempel-Hai Hong Paint Company as sales manager. After joining the Company, he was the Deputy General Manager of Industrial Management Department, General Manager of Business Planning Department, the Deputy General Manager of Shenzhen Mawan Port Services Co., Ltd., the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ningbo Daxie China Merchants International Terminal Co., Ltd., the Managing Director of China Merchants Port Services (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Haixing Harbour Development Co., Ltd., Deputy General Manager of the Company, Chairman of China Nanshan Development (Group) Incorporation and a Non- executive Director of China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd., shares of which are listed on both the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the HKSE. He was appointed to the Board Director on 18 February 2016.