Dr. CHEN Xinyuan, aged 61, currently serves as a professor of accounting and the dean of the School of Advanced Accounting and Auditing at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, is concurrently the director of the Guiding Committee on Education of Accounting of the Ministry of Education, the vice president of the Accounting Society of China and the president of the Accounting Society of Shanghai, and is currently an independent non-executive director of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, stock code: 688981; and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, stock code: 00981). He was formerly the vice president and the dean of the School of Accounting at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Dr. CHEN has expertise in finance and accounting, auditing and risk management, and corporate governance. He has been awarded the honorary titles of the first Outstanding Faculty Award of the Ministry of Education, the National “May 1” Labour Medal, Shanghai Model Worker, Shanghai Outstanding Communist Party Member, etc., and has been selected in the national “New Century Talents Project”. Dr. CHEN graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics with a master’s degree and a doctorate degree in Economics (Accounting), and is a distinguished professor of the Ministry of Education’s “Changjiang Scholars Program” and an expert with special allowances of the State Council.