China Shenhua Energy Company Limited provided financial guidance for the year of 2017. For the year, the company expects profit for the year attributable to the equity holders of the company to be approximately RMB 47.9 billion. The positive profit alert for 2017 of the company was mainly due to: the high downstream demand of coal and electricity consumption influenced by factors such as the rising trend at a stable pace in the domestic economy, the satisfactory outcome brought by the supply-side structural reform as well as relatively small contribution of hydropower, achieving a significant year-on-year growth of the coal price. During the reporting period, the company endeavored to increase the commercial coal production, strived for coordinating sources of coal purchased from the surrounding areas of the self-owned mines and railways as well as actively performed better in sales of electricity, achieving rise in the sales volume and average selling price of coal and increase in business volume in transportation and power output dispatch. Net profit belonging to shareholders of the listed company to be about RMB 45.2 billion under the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises of China, with a year-on-year increase of about RMB 22.5 billion compared with the same period of the year before, with the basic earnings per share to be about RMB 2.27, a year-on-year increase of about 99%. The net profit belonging to shareholders of the listed company after excluding extraordinary profit and loss will be about RMB 45.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of about RMB 21.9 billion compared with the same period of the year before, a year-on-year increase of about 94%.