China Shenhua Energy Company Limited announced that according to the preliminary estimation, profit of the Group attributable to the equity holders of the company in the first half of 2018 is estimated to be approximately RMB 24.5 billion (the first half of 2017: RMB 26.298 billion), representing a year-on-year decrease of approximately 6.8%. The decrease in profit for the period attributable to the equity holders of the company was mainly due to: (1) the decrease in commercial coal production volume and increase in coals purchased from third parties of the Group for the first half of the year, which resulted in a decrease in profit from the coal segment; (2) an increase in the proportion of profit from the power segment with relatively higher proportion of minority interest; (3) an increase in income tax expense. The company predicts its net profit belonging to shareholders of the company to be about RMB 23 billion under the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises of China, with a year-on-year decrease of about RMB 1.3 billion or 5.3% compared with the same period of the year before. The net profit belonging to shareholders of the company after excluding extraordinary profit and loss will be about RMB 23 billion with a decrease of about RMB 0.8 billion or 3.4% compared with the same period of the year before.