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Mr. Rui Xiaowu, aged 48, was appointed as the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Company in December 2006. Mr. Rui is also the Director of APT Satellite Company Limited and APT Satellite Investment Company Limited, subsidiaries of the Company. He is also the Chairman of the board of directors of APT Satellite International Company Limited (APT International), the substantial shareholder of the Company. Mr. Rui is a Master’s Postgraduate. He was accredited as a Research Fellow in 1999 and was awarded by the State Council of China as the Winner of Government Special Allowance in 1996. Currently, Mr. Rui is the General Manager of China Satellite Communications Corporation, the holding company of one of the shareholders of APT International, the substantial shareholder of the Company. In 1982 Mr. Rui graduated from the Science & Technology University for National Defense of China in Computer Software Major and had been studying Master’s Degree in Computer Aided Engineering at the 710 Research Institute of the former Ministry of Aerospace Industry of China during the period from 1982 to 1985, and participated works at the 710 Research Institute in the same year. Thereafter, he had been the Engineer, Division Director of the Business Marketing Division, Vice President, President of the 710 Research Institute; he had been the Business Assistant to General Manager and Director General of the Business Planning & Marketing Department, Business Assistant to General Manager and Director General of the Marketing Department of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation since 2000; he had also been appointed as the Vice Chairman of Sino Satellite Communications Company Limited since 2001; he had been appointed as the Assistant to General Manager of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation since 2002; he had also been appointed as the Chairman of China Spacesat Company Limited (a corporation listed on the Shanghai Securities Exchange in China) during the period from 2002 to 2005; he had been appointed as the Chairman & President and Chairman of China Aerospace International Holdings Limited and CASIL Telecommunications Holdings Limited, respectively (both of them are corporations listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong) during the period from 2002 to 2006; and he had been appointed as the Deputy General Manager of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation during the period from 2005 to 2006. | 