China Coal Energy Company Limited provided unaudited consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended 31 December 2019. The board of directors of the company informed the company's shareholders and potential investors that based on preliminary estimates of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34, the profit of the Group attributable to equity holders of the company for the year ended 31 December 2019 is expected to reach approximately RMB 6 billion to RMB 6.4 billion compared to RMB 4.49 billion a year ago, representing a year-on-year increase ranging from approximately 33.6% to 42.5%. The Board considers that the expected increase in profit for the year ended 31 December 2019 is due to the fact that: In 2019, the company continued to deepen the result of the supply-side structural reform, strived to promote high-quality development, and achieved further release of advanced production capacity and optimization of industrial layout structure and product variety structure, and the profitability was further enhanced.