Mr. ZHU, aged 51, is currently an executive director and  the deputy general manager of the Company. He is also currently the chairman of the board of directors, an executive director, the managing director, the chairman of the executive committee, the investment and strategic planning committee and the risk management committee, and a member of the nomination committee, the remuneration committee and the ESG committee of COSCO SHIPPING Ports (a non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Company). He is also a non-executive director of Qingdao Port International Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 06198) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 601298)). Mr. ZHU started his career in 1995 and previously served as a deputy business manager and the business manager of the dispatching division of the liner department of COSCO Container Lines Co., Ltd. (“COSCO Container Lines”, currently known as COSCO SHIPPING Lines), a deputy head of the business division of the coastal transportation department of COSCO Container Lines, the manager of the East and South China operating department of the Sino-Japan trade division of COSCO Container Lines, a deputy general manager and the chairman of the labour union of Shanghai PANASIA Shipping Co., Ltd., a deputy general manager of Americas trading division of COSCO Container Lines, the general manager of COSCO Container Lines (Netherlands) B.V., the supervisor of the general manager’s office of COSCO Container Lines, the general manager and a deputy party secretary of Shanghai PANASIA Shipping Co., Ltd., and a deputy general manager and a member of the party committee of COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd., etc. Mr. ZHU graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a master’s degree in business administration. He is an economist.