China Shenhua Energy Company Limited (the ?Company?) dated 11 January 2023 in relation to the resignation of Mr. Huang Qing as the secretary to the board of directors (the ?Board?), company secretary and general counsel of the Company due to adjustment of work arrangements, and his termination of appointment as the authorised representative of the Company. The company announced that on 22 March 2024, the Board resolved that Mr. Song Jinggang and Mr. Zhuang Yuan be appointed as joint company secretaries of the Company for a term of three years commencing from the date of approval by the Board. Mr. Song Jinggang (?Mr. Song?), born in November 1974, a member of the Communist Party and a senior accountant.

Mr. Song has extensive experience in financial management. He graduated from Chongqing Institute of Industrial Management in 1997, majoring in accounting, and obtained a master's degree in business administration from Sichuan College of Business Administration in 2005. Mr. Song has been a member of the Party Committee of the Company since June 2022, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since August 2022 and the secretary to the Board of the Company since April 2023.

From October 2020 to June 2022, Mr. Song served as a director, general manager and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Energy Capital Holdings Co. Ltd. From April 2020 to October 2020, he served as a director, general manager and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Energy Finance Company Limited. From December 2019 to April 2020, he served as the first-level business director of China Energy Capital Holdings Co.

Ltd. and former Guodian Finance Co. Ltd. From April 2017 to December 2019, he served as the deputy secretary of the Party Committee, director, inspector and first-level business director of Changjiang Property Insurance Co. Ltd. Prior to the foregoing, Mr. Song had served as the deputy director of the financial management department of the former China Guodian Corporation, the chief accountant and a member of the Party group of Guodian Changyuan Electric Power Co.

Ltd., a member of the Party group of Guodian Hubei Electric Power Co. Ltd., the deputy chief accountant and head of financial property department of Guodian Dadu River Basin Hydropower Development Co. Ltd. Mr. Zhuang Yuan (?Mr. Zhuang?), born in October 1982, a member of the Communist Party, and an associate member of The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute.

Mr. Zhuang has long been engaged in the construction of the board of directors of listed company and corporate governance, and graduated from Tsinghua University Law School in 2006, majoring in civil and commercial law. Mr. Zhuang has been the director of the Office of the Board of the Company since April 2022, and the Representative of Securities Affairs of the Company since August 2022. From November 2021 to April 2022, he served as the director of the International Business Department (Overseas Business Department) of the Company, vice director of the Office of the Board of the Company from April 2020 to November 2021, and deputy mine director of a coal mine under the Company on a temporary basis in 2021.

He also served as the vice director of the Department of the Board, Supervisory Committee and Investor Relations of the Company from June 2018 to April 2020. Previously, Mr. Zhuang served as the head of the Information Disclosure Division of the Department of the Board, Supervisory Committee and Investor Relations of the former Shenhua Group Corporation Limited and the Company. The Company also announced that, Mr. Song Jinggang has also been appointed as the authorised representative of the Company with effect from 22 March 2024 to fill the vacancy following Mr. Huang Qing's cessation to act in the same capacity as mentioned above.