Professor LIANG Xiong Jian, has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since November 2001. He is also an independent non-executive director of Kantone. He has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications in China. He is presently a professor of the School of Economics and Management at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and the Director of the Institute of Telecommunications Management of BUPT. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Dean of Management Engineering Department of BUPT. His other positions include member of National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC); Deputy to the People's Congress, Beijing Municipality; and Director of Communication Economy & Management Society, China Institute of Communications. He was also an independent director of PRC company China Satcom Guomai Communications Company Limited, which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with its main businesses in data communications, messaging, and wireless telecommunications.

Professor Liang is well-known to the telecom community in Hong Kong, having been invited on numerous occasions to chair and lecture at major wireless and various other telecom conferences held in Hong Kong and the Region.