Ms. XIE Qun holds a Ph.D. in English Language of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master of Arts Degree and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Language of Central China Normal University. Ms. Xie has been appointed as independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 6 September 2013. With effect from 6 September 2013, Ms. Xie has also been appointed as the chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee. Prior to joining the Group, she had over 33 years of experience in the profession of education. While devoting herself to the fields of higher education research, foreign literature studies and enterprise culture research, Ms. Xie participated and completed one national social science fund project and one national publishing fund project. She was responsible for many research programs at provincial level as well as other academic projects, and published more than 10 academic books and textbooks and released over 20 research papers in literature on major local and international journals. She is currently the Professor in School of Foreign Languages of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.