The board of directors of Beijing Development (Hong Kong) Limited announced that Professor Nie Yongfeng has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 1 January 2014. Prof. Nie, born in 1945, is a professor at School of Environment, Tsinghua University, a doctoral supervisor for a doctoral program in Radiation Protection and Environment Protection, and a doctoral supervisor for Environmental Science and Engineering. Formerly, he served as the director of the Institute of Solid Waste Pol ution Control and Resource Utilisation in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Environment Engineering and Solid Waste Pol ution Control, Tsinghua University, and director of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for "Solid Waste Management and Environment Safety", Tsinghua University.