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(Stock Code: 902)

ANNOUNCEMENT ON RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT

2019 SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions set out in the Notice were duly passed by the shareholders by way of poll at the EGM held on 17 December 2019.

Reference is made to the notice of meeting of 2019 second extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM" or the "Meeting") of Huaneng Power International, Inc. (the "Company") dated 1 November 2019. Unless otherwise stated, capitalised terms used herein shall have the same meanings as those used in the Notice.

The Board is pleased to announce that the EGM was held at 9:00 a.m. on 17 December 2019 at the Conference Room A102, Huaneng Building, 6 Fuxingmennei Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, the PRC and the resolutions set out in the Notice were duly passed by poll by the attending Shareholders and authorised proxies carrying voting rights.

The convening of the Meeting was in compliance with the Company Law of the PRC, the Rules governing the listing of the Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Listing Rules") and relevant provisions of the Articles of Association of the Company. The Meeting was convened by the board of directors of the Company. After election by more than one half of the Directors, Huang Jian (Director), presided over the Meeting as the chairman of the Meeting.

4 out of 12 directors of the Company attended the meeting. Shu Yinbiao (Chairman), Wang Yongxiang (Director), Mi Dabin (Director), Guo Hongbo (Director), Cheng Heng (Director), Yue Heng (Independent Director), Liu Jizhen (Independent Director) and Xu Haifeng (Independent Director) were unable to attend the Meeting due to other work reasons. 2 out of 6 supervisors of the Company attended the meeting. Mu Xuan (Vice Chairman of Supervisory Committee), Zhang Mengjiao (Supervisor), Gu Jianguo (Supervisor) and Zhang Xiaojun (Supervisor) were unable to attend the Meeting due to other work reasons. The Company Secretary Huang Chaoquan and other relevant senior management of the Company attended the Meeting.

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ATTENDANCE AT THE EGM

As at the record date (i.e. 26 November 2019), there were totally 15,698,093,359 shares of the Company entitled to attend the EGM to vote for or against the resolutions tabled thereat. Details of the shareholders and their proxies who attended the EGM which are set out below:

1.

Number of Shareholders and proxies who attended the EGM (person(s))

29

Of which: A Shares

25

H Shares

4

2.

Total number of Shares carrying voting rights held by Shareholders who

attended the Meeting (Share)

2,932,092,601

Of which: A Shares

1,974,556,221

H Shares

957,536,380

3.

Percentage of the total number of Shares held by Shareholders and proxies

who attended the EGM relative to the total number of Shares carrying voting

rights of the Company (%)

34.321128%

Of which: A Shares (%)

23.112844%

H Shares%

11.208284%

According to the Hong Kong Listing Rules, China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd., Huaneng International Power Development Corporation, China Hua Neng Group Hong Kong Limited and China Huaneng Finance Corporation Limited, being connected persons (shareholders of the Company who are involved in or interested in the transactions as contemplated by the following resolutions considered at the EGM), holding an aggregate of 7,154,980,866 ordinary shares of the Company, representing approximately 45.58% of the total issued shares of the Company as at the record date, were required to abstain and had abstained from voting on the resolutions Nos.1 to 3 tabled at the EGM. The Company was not aware of any parties indicating their intention to vote against the resolutions proposed at the Meeting. None of our shareholders was entitled to attend and abstain from voting in favour as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules.

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CONSIDERATION OF THE RESOLUTIONS AT THE EGM

As considered by Shareholders and their respective proxies attending the EGM, relevant resolutions were voted by way of a combination of on-site voting and online voting. The voting results of the EGM are set out as follows:

For

Against

Abstain

Whether or

No.

Details of the resolutions

Type of votes

Number

%

Number

%

Number

%

not passed

Ordinary Resolutions

1

To consider and approve the

A Shareholders

1,974,469,221

99.995594

74,000

0.003748

13,000

0.000658

proposal regarding the

H Shareholders

954,455,918

99.678293

2,398,942

0.250533

681,520

0.071174

continuing connected

All Shareholders

2,928,925,139

99.891973

2,472,942

0.084340

694,520

0.023687

Passed

transactions for 2020

between the Company and

Huaneng Group

2

To consider and approve the

A Shareholders

1,965,009,437

99.516510

9,546,784

0.483490

0

0.000000

proposal regarding the

H Shareholders

580,651,374

60.640137

376,215,606

39.289954

669,400

0.069909

continuing connected

All Shareholders

2,545,660,811

86.820614

385,762,390

13.156556

669,400

0.022830

transactions (from 2020 to

Passed

2022) between the

Company and Huaneng

Finance

3

To consider and approve the

A Shareholders

1,974,532,521

99.998800

23,700

0.001200

0

0.000000

proposal regarding the

H Shareholders

955,812,698

99.819988

1,041,962

0.108817

681,720

0.071195

continuing connected

All Shareholders

2,930,345,219

99.940405

1,065,662

0.036345

681,720

0.023250

transactions (from 2020 to

Passed

2022) between the

Company and Tiancheng

Leasing

In accordance with the relevant provision of the Company Law and the Articles of Association of the Company, resolutions numbered 1 to 3 (inclusive) are ordinary resolutions and were passed by more than 50% of the total number of shares carrying voting rights held by those who attended the EGM in person or by proxies.

SCRUTINEER

Pursuant to the Hong Kong Listing Rules, the H Share Registrar of the Company (Hong Kong Registrars Limited) was appointed as the scrutineer at the EGM for the purpose of vote-takings.

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WITNESS OF LAWYERS

The EGM was attended and witnessed by Mr Bian Hao and Ms Meng Rui, lawyers from Haiwen & Partners who had issued the legal opinion. The witnessing lawyers were of the opinion that: the convening and holding procedures of the EGM of the Company, the eligibility of the persons attending the EGM and the voting procedures for the EGM were in compliance with the stipulations of the relevant laws and the Articles of Association, and that the Meeting was lawful and valid.

By Order of the Board

Huaneng Power International, Inc.

Huang Chaoquan

Company Secretary

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are:

Shu Yinbiao (Executive Director)

Yue Heng (Independent Non-executive Director)

Huang Jian (Non-executive Director)

Xu Mengzhou (Independent Non-executive Director)

Wang Yongxiang (Non-executive Director)

Liu Jizhen (Independent Non-executive Director)

Mi Dabin (Non-executive Director)

Xu Haifeng (Independent Non-executive Director)

Guo Hongbo (Non-executive Director)

Zhang Xianzhi (Independent Non-executive Director)

Cheng Heng (Non-executive Director)

Lin Chong (Non-executive Director)

Beijing, the PRC

18 December 2019

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