HU Jiandong, born in 1963, is a chief senior engineer who holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering majoring in hydropower station automation from Huazhong College of Technology (now known as Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and a master’s degree in economics majoring corporate management from Fudan University. He currently serves as a special duty director of State Power Investment Corporation Limited (“SPIC”, the ultimate controlling shareholder of the Company), a director of Jilin Electric Power Co., Lt, a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and a director of SPIC Yellow River Upstream Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. He also formerly served as an executive director and an executive vice president of the Company when the Company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2004 and remained in office until January 2008.
Mr. HU held several senior positions in power related industries in the past, including the vice president of Guangxi Power Industry Survey and Design Institute, the deputy director of Guangxi Power Industry Bureau, the deputy general manager of Guangxi Power Company Limited and China Power International Holding Limited, the general manager of China Power Investment Co., Ltd., and deputy chief engineer, assistant to the general manager and concurrently the chief officer of departments or institutions such as hydropower, hydrogen power, clean energy and human resources of SPIC. Mr. HU was also the former general manager and chairman of Shanghai Electric Power Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, from the period January 2008 to July 2011 and October 2020 to August 2022, respectively.