---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-046183"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBAT"
cik: "0001117171"
company_name: "CBAK Energy Technology, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:11:15.056901+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CBAK Energy Chairman Yunfei Li resigns; CFO Jiewei Li elected to board

## Summary
- Yunfei Li resigned as Board member and Chairman effective May 20, 2025, for personal reasons, no disagreement.
- Jiewei Li, current CFO, elected as new director effective immediately, recommended by departing chairman.
- No Chairman appointed; Board will operate without one until further action.
- Jiewei Li has been CFO and Secretary since Aug 2023; no additional compensation for director role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-046183
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBAT
- cik: 0001117171
- company_name: CBAK Energy Technology, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1117171/000121390025046183/0001213900-25-046183-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1117171/000121390025046183/ea0243038-8k_cbakenergy.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-046183.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-046183.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jiewei Li was elected as Director at CBAK Energy Technology, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board elected Mr. Jiewei Li, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, as a new director of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1117171/000121390025046183/0001213900-25-046183-index.htm
- Executive change
  Yunfei Li resigned as Chairman of the Board at CBAK Energy Technology, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: On May 20, 2025, Mr. Yunfei Li advised the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) of his resignation as a member and the Chairman of the Board, effectively immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1117171/000121390025046183/0001213900-25-046183-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.