The Board of China Gas Holdings Limited announced that Dr. MA Weihua (``Dr. MA'') has been appointed as an independent non-executive director, chairman of the Sustainability Committee and a member of each of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance and Risk Control Committee of the Company with effect from 1 February 2022. Dr. MA Weihua is currently the chairman and a non-executive director of Bison Finance Group Limited, an independent non-executive director of Legend Holdings Corporation and Haidilao International Holding Ltd., an independent director of Guangdong Qunxing Toys Joint Stock Co. Ltd., the chairman of National Fund for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, chairman of the board of China Global Philanthropy Institute, chairman of China Alliance of Social Value Investment, the director-general of One Foundation and held positions including adjunct professor in various higher education institutes such as Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Dr. MA previously served as the executive director, president and chief executive officer of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd, the chairman of the board of CMB Wing Lung Bank Limited, CIGNA and CMC Life Insurance Company Ltd. and China Merchants Fund Management Co. Ltd.