Johnson Electric Holdings Limited

Appointment Of Independent Non-Executive Director

HONG KONG, Sept. 20 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors (the "Board") of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited ("the Company") is pleased to announce that Mrs. Laura May-Lung Cha has been appointed as an independent non-executive director and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company with effect from 20th September 2004.

Mrs. Cha, aged 54, was educated in the USA, with a BA degree from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from the University of Santa Clara. She practised as an attorney in the 80's in San Francisco with Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, and in Hong Kong with Coudert Brothers. She joined the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong in 1991 as Assistant Director, Corporate Finance; as Executive Director and headed the Corporate Finance Division in 1994 and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1998 until 2001. In early 2001, she was appointed as a Vice-Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and became the first person outside the Mainland to join the Chinese Government at the vice-ministerial rank. She resigned from the post in early September 2004. She is a Council member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a former member of the Committee of 100 in the USA.

There is no service contract between Mrs. Cha and the Company. Mrs. Cha is appointed for a term of two years subject to retirement and re-election by shareholders at the next annual general meeting pursuant to Bye-law 100 of the Company's Bye-Laws at which time she will be eligible for re-election. Thereafter, she will be subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at annual general meetings pursuant to Bye-law 109(A) of the Company's Bye-Laws. The director's fee for each independent non-executive director is currently USD20,000 per annum plus additional attendance fee of USD5,000 for each additional full board meeting. The fee for serving on the Audit Committee is HKD50,000 per annum.

Mrs. Cha does not hold any position with the Company and other members of the Company immediately before the date of her appointment, nor has any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years. She is not connected with any director, senior management, substantial shareholders or controlling shareholders of the Company. She does not have any interest in shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance. Mrs. Cha is not aware of any matter that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company.

  The Board takes this opportunity to welcome Mrs. Cha to join the Board.

                                         By Order of the Board
                                         Patrick Wang Shui Chung
                                         Chairman and Chief Executive

  Hong Kong, 20th September 2004

As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises of Wang Koo Yik Chun (Honorary Chairman), Patrick Wang Shui Chung (Chairman and Chief Executive), Winnie Wang Wing Yee (Vice-Chairman), Richard Wang Li-Chung (Executive Director), Peter Wang Kin Chung (Non-executive Director) and Peter Stuart Allenby Edwards, Patrick Blackwell Paul, Arkadi Kuhlmann, Oscar De Paula Bernardes Neto, Michael John Enright and Laura May-Lung Cha being Independent Non-executive Directors.

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