China ’s most advanced chip company, SMIC issued a announcement of major personnel changes tonight. Zhou Zixue resigned as the chairman of the chairman and chairman of the board nomination committee of the board of directors because of his personal physical reasons.He was appointed as the acting chairman and the chairman of the nomination committee of the board of directors.

Comprehensive Daily Economic News, Phoenix.com, and First Financial Report, the announcement shows that after Zhou Zixue resigned as the above position, he will continue to serve as SMIC's executive director.

Zhou Zixue was appointed as Chairman and Executive Director of SMIC on March 6, 2015.Before SMIC, he worked in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and was the chief of Economic Affairs Division and the Financial Department.

According to the official website of SMIC, Zhou Zixue also serves as the vice chairman and secretary -general of the China Electronics Information Industry Federation, chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, Chairman of Jiangsu Changdian Technology Co., Ltd., Chairman of Jiangsu Changdian Technology Co., Ltd.Company independent director.

After Zhou Zixue stepped down, Gao Yonggang, the director of SMIC, chief financial officer and company secretary, was appointed as the acting chairman, fulfilled the chairman of the chairman, and served as the chairman of the board nomination committee.

SMIC introduced that Gao Yonggang was appointed as a non -executive director of the company in 2009. He was appointed as the executive vice president of strategic planning on June 17, 2013, and was transferred to the executive director. On February 17, 2014He is appointed as the chief financial officer and was appointed as the secretary of the joint company on July 3, 2017.On December 11, 2020, he was appointed secretary of the company.

Gao Yonggang is also a director, executive director or chairman of SMIC's subsidiaries and affiliated companies.He also serves as a director of Jiangsu Changdian Technology Co., Ltd. and an independent director of Shanghai Yiruang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.

Gao Yonggang is a PhD in management of Nankai University. He has served as the Chief Accountant of the Telecommunications Science and Technology Research Institute (Datang Telecom Technology Industry Group) and the chairman of Datang Telecom Group Finance Co., Ltd.SMIC introduced that he has more than 30 years of corporate management experience and has served as the person in charge of finance or enterprise of many enterprises or institutions.