Huo Qigang was hired as an external director of COFCO.

According to the official website of COFCO Group, Huo Qigang served as a director of the board of directors of COFCO and was hired as an external director of COFCO Group in 2023.

Origin from the official website of COFCO

According to reports, Huo Qigang graduated from the Department of Economics and Management of Oxford University in the United Kingdom.Chairman of the Development Bureau.The current vice president of Huo Yingdong Group.

Origin from the official website of COFCO

According to Huo Qigang's certification Weibo, Huo Qigang also served as the Hong Kong Sports Association and Vice President of the Olympic Committee and the vice president of Huo Yingdong Group.

According to the official website of COFCO Group, COFCO Group Co., Ltd. is a large state -owned enterprise directly under the central government, a leader in the Chinese agricultural and grain industry, and a global layout and an international grain merchant of the entire industrial chain.COFCO Group focuses on farming and grain as its core business, focusing on food, oil, sugar, cotton, meat, milk and other categories, and also involves food, finance, and real estate.As of the end of 2022, the total assets of the group were 695.6 billion yuan. In 2022, the total operating income of the group was 741.4 billion yuan, and the total profit was 22.8 billion yuan.

The official website also introduced that COFCO Group has formed 17 professional companies with core products as its main line, namely COFCO International, COFCO Trading, COFCO Valley, COFCO Oil, COFCO Biotechnology, COFCO Sugar Industry, China Textile, COFCO Science and Technology, and COFCO.COFCO wine industry, COFCO Coca -Cola, COFCO Jiakang, China Tea, Mengniu Dairy, I Buy.com, COFCO Packaging, COFCO Capital and Dayue City Holdings.As an investment holding company, COFCO Group owns 15 listed companies.

According to the China Economic Weekly reported in July 2020, the external directors system is an important initiative launched by the State Council of the State Council to establish and improve the pilot of the board of directors and further regulate the construction of the board of directors.According to the implementation of equity incentives to the state -owned holding listed company (domestic) issued in 2006, external directors refer to those who are nominated by state -owned controlling shareholders according to law.) The director.

The reason why the SASAC launched an external director system is to change the situation of the previous members of the state -owned enterprise board of directors mainly consisting of internal personnel of the enterprise, especially if you want to pass LSQUO; external directors Rsquo;The separation of the execution layer changed the situation of lsquo;Xu Pauli, a researcher at the State -owned Assets Supervision and Administration Research Center, told China Economic Weekly that external directors have entered and occupied the majority, which has continuously enhanced the independence of the board of directors.