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(Stock Code: 228)

ANNOUNCEMENT

APPOINTMENT OF ALTERNATE DIRECTOR

The board (the ''Board'') of directors (the ''Directors'') of China Energy Development Holdings Limited (the ''Company'') wishes to announce that on 29 June 2015, Mr. Zhao Guoqiang (''Mr. Zhao'') was appointed as an alternate director to Dr. Gu Quan Rong and Mr. Wang Yongguang with immediate effect.
Mr. Zhao Guoqiang, aged 57, joined the Company as an executive director in December
2009 and was elected as the chief executive officer on 29 December 2009. He graduated from his study for Physics at Qufu Normal University. He has nearly 33 years of working experience in exploration and exploitation of petroleum industry. He acted as senior engineer in Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Company and was awarded the Top-notch talent by Shengli Oilfield.
Save as disclosed above, Mr. Zhao did not hold any directorship in any other listed public company in the past three years. Mr. Zhao has been the director of the Company's subsidiaries including Famewood Limited, Zhong Neng Finance Limited, China Energy Resources Holdings Limited, Totalbuild Investments Limited, Joy Even International Limited, Silverwise Limited, Sinochina Global Limited and China Era Energy Power Investment (Hong Kong) Limited. Other than the relationship arising from his being an executive Director, Mr. Zhao is not related to any directors, senior management or substantial or controlling shareholders of the Company.
As at the date of this announcement, Mr. Zhao does not have, nor is deemed to have, any interests in any shares of the Company (''Shares'') or underlying Shares within the meaning of Part XV of Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong).

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Mr. Zhao has not entered into any service contract with the Company, nor has he been appointed for a specified length of service period. In the financial year ended 31 December
2014, Mr. Zhao had received a director's emolument and other benefits in kind in the amount of HK$1,347,000.
By order of the Board
China Energy Development Holdings Limited
Zhao Guoqiang
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
Hong Kong, 30 June 2015
As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. Zhao Guoqiang (Chief Executive Officer and alternate director to Dr. Gu Quan Rong and Mr. Wang Yongguang) and Mr. Chui Kwong Kau as executive directors; Dr. Gu Quan Rong as non-executive director; and Mr. Fu Wing Kwok, Ewing and Mr. Wang Yongguang as independent non- executive directors.

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