The Board of Hilong Holding Limited announced that, with effect from 25 August 2017, Mr. Shi Zheyan has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the company. Mr. Shi Zheyan is a senior engineer. He has close to 40 years of work experience in the petroleum industry. From April 2014 to July 2016, Mr. Shi Zheyan was the deputy general economist as well as director-general of the security department of the China National Petroleum Corporation.