Mr. Mao Zhongwu, aged 50, was appointed as the chairman of the Company on 23 July 2009. From July 2009 to April 2010, he was also the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Mao has been the managing director and general manager of Sany Heavy Equipment Co., Ltd. (“Sany Heavy Equipment”) since July 2006, and has been an executive director of Sany Heavy Integrated Coal Mining Equipment Co., Ltd. (“Sany Zongcai”) and Sany Group Shenyang Mining Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd. (“Sany Transportation”) since their respective establishments in May 2008 and September 2009. He is mainly responsible for the overall strategic planning and investment decisions of the Group. Mr. Mao has over 25 years of experience in the machinery industry.

Mr. Mao is a non-executive Director of the Sany Group Limited (the “Sany Group”) and has held no executive position in the Sany Group. He founded the Sany Group in 1989 and was mainly responsible for its business development. Since then, he held various posts in the subsidiaries of the Sany Group, and he has been a director of the group since 2000. He was appointed as the vice president of the Sany Group from June 2005 to June 2006. During his tenure with the Sany Group, Mr. Mao was awarded the honor of “Pioneering Star "by the Research & Development Centre of the State Council . Mr. Mao was also elected as the vice president of the Loudi Industrial and Commercial Union, Hunan Province in 2000.

Mr. Mao received professional training in Economics and Management at the National University of Singapore in 1999.