The board of directors of Central China Securities Co., Ltd. announced that Mr. Li Zhaoxin, the general manager, chairman of the executive committee, and the person in charge of accounting affairs of the Company, has applied to the Board on 17 June 2024 to resign from his concurrent position as the person in charge of accounting affairs of the Company due to work arrangements. The Board of the Company agreed to appoint Mr. Guo Liangyong as the Chief Financial Officer to perform the duties of the person in charge of accounting affairs. Mr. Guo Liangyong has passed the competency test for senior management personnel of securities companies conducted by the Securities Association of China.

His term of office shall commence from the date of this announcement and end on the date of expiration of the Seventh Session of the Board (i.e. 9 November 2024). Guo Liangyong, male, born in September 1971, holds a bachelor's degree and is a senior accountant. He started his career in July 1993 and worked in the finance department of the electrical and mechanical equipment company of Pingdingshan Mining Bureau and the bond department of the Pingdingshan securities branch of Henan Securities.

He successively served as the deputy general manager of the Pingdingshan securities branch of Henan Securities and the deputy director of the planning and finance department of Henan Securities from March 1999 to November 2002, the deputy general manager of the planning and finance department of the Company in November 2002, the general manager of the settlement and custody headquarters of the Company in October 2007, the general manager of the operation and management headquarters of the Company in April 2009, the general manager of the derivatives brokerage business headquarters of the Company in May 2014, the general manager of the planning and finance department of the Company in May 2015 (participated in the preparation work of Central China Life from June 2017 to February 2019), the general manager of Zhongding Kaiyuan Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd. in September 2021, and the head of the human resources management headquarters and the head of the organisation department of the party committee of the Company since December 2021.