On January 24, Hainan Airlines Holding Co.Ltd(600221) ( Hainan Airlines Holding Co.Ltd(600221) , 600221. Sh, hereinafter referred to as “HNA Holdings”) announced that for personal reasons, chairman Liu Lu applied to resign from the relevant positions of the company’s legal representative, chairman, director and special committees under the board of directors. Liu Lu will not hold any other positions in the company and its holding subsidiaries after her resignation.
The announcement said that the company will complete the election of the new chairman as soon as possible in accordance with legal procedures. Since the election of the new chairman still needs to go through corresponding legal procedures, Chen Ming, vice chairman of the company, will perform the duties of the legal representative and chairman on behalf of the company until the new legal representative and chairman are elected by the company.
On December 24 last year, Zhang Zhigang, director and vice president of HNA holdings, applied for resignation from the position of director, member of the special committee under the board of directors and vice president of the company due to work adjustment. At the same time, he resigned from the position of director and director of HNA aviation Technology Co., Ltd., a holding subsidiary of the company. Zhang Zhigang will no longer hold any position in the company after his resignation.
According to the official website of HNA holdings, Liu Lu, male, born in July 1970, native place of Anhui Province, graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics with a master’s degree in business administration. He joined HNA in April 1994 and is now the chairman of Hainan Airlines Holding Co.Ltd(600221) and the vice chairman and executive president of HNA Aviation Tourism Group Co., Ltd. He has successively served as the chief financial officer of Haikou Meilan Airport Co., Ltd., the chief financial officer and deputy general manager of Chang’an Airlines Co., Ltd., the chief financial officer of Jinpeng Airlines Co., Ltd., the executive president and chief financial officer of Gansu Airport Group Co., Ltd., the executive chairman and chairman of HNA Airport Group Co., Ltd., Hainan Airlines Holding Co.Ltd(600221) president, CEO and executive vice chairman, Executive chairman, President and chairman of Tianjin Airlines Co., Ltd., chairman of Beijing Capital Airlines Co., Ltd., President and chief financial officer of HNA Aviation Group Co., Ltd., chairman of Western Airlines Co., Ltd., etc.
Chen Ming, male, born in July 1965, native place of Xinjiang, CPC member, graduated from Maastricht School of management in the Netherlands, majoring in business administration. He joined HNA in 1994 and is now the vice chairman of Hainan Airlines Holding Co.Ltd(600221) . He has successively served as deputy general manager, general manager and office director of the company’s marketing department, CEO and general manager of Jinlu business aircraft Co., Ltd., chairman of HNA aviation Food Holding Co., Ltd., vice president, President and chairman of Hainan Airlines Co., Ltd., vice chairman and vice president of HNA aviation Group Co., Ltd., vice chairman of HNA Tourism Group Co., Ltd Vice chairman of HNA Aviation Tourism Group Co., Ltd.
According to the previous announcement, the controlling shareholder of HNA was changed to Hainan Fangda Aviation Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Fangda aviation”), and the natural person Fang Wei was the actual controller of the listed company. On January 21, 2022, Hainan holdings received a notice from the controlling shareholder, China Eastern Airlines. In order to implement the reorganization plan for the substantive merger and reorganization of 321 companies such as HNA Group Co., Ltd., 95% of the equity of HNA Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “aviation group”) has completed the industrial and commercial change procedures and registered with Fangda airlines.
Up to now, Fangda airlines directly holds 12.63% equity of HNA holdings; Fangda Airlines holds 95.00% of the equity of aviation group, aviation group holds 99.01% of the equity of grand Xinhua Airlines Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “grand Xinhua Airlines”), and grand Xinhua Airlines and its subsidiary American aviation LDC jointly hold 12.32% of the equity of the company; Fangda Airlines controls a total of 8.295 billion shares in Hainan, and controls 24.95% of the equity shares of listed companies.
