The board of directors of Wuyi International Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that Professor Zhang Rongqing has been re-designated from an independent non-executive director to an executive director of the Company with effect from 15 September 2017. In view of the Re-designation, Professor Zhang also resigned as a member of the audit committee of the Board on the same day. After the Re-designation, he will remain as a member of the remuneration committee and the nomination committee of the Board. Professor Zhang was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the company on 16 June 2017, and was a member of the Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee before the Re-designation. Professor Zhang has worked as a professor in Tsinghua University since 1998, and he has been the associate dean of the School of Life Science in Tsinghua University. He is currently a director of the Institute of Biomedical Research in Yangtze Delta Region of Tsinghua University in ZheJiang, a deputy director of the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education about tertiary institutions' biological technology and bio-engineering majors, a member of the 3rd and 4th Advisory Group of Experts of the "973" Plan in the field of agriculture, which is a key fundamental research development plan of the state. Professor Zhang has received many awards in science and technology, and has been the inventors of various patents. He is a well-known senior expert in the field of marine biochemistry & molecular biology, marine natural drug & gene engineering, and marine biological enzyme.