Pursuant to a resolution of the 1st 2008 Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, held on 2 Sept 2008, the company will pay a cash dividend of RMB 0.60 (taxes included), allot five bonus shares and distribute a stock dividend of five shares from its capital reserve for every ten shares held, based on 1,212,000,000 total shares outstanding, to shareholders of record on 11 Sept 2008.

Record date: 11 Sept 2008
Ex-dividend and ex-right date: 12 Sept 2008
Listing and trading date for newly-issued tradable shares: 12 Sept 2008

Inquiry information:
Venue: the Securities Department of the company
Address: 318 Xikuang Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi.
Contact person: Wang Jingying
Tel: 0351-6217282
Tax: 0351-6127434

Board of Directors
4 Sept 2008


Source: Securities Times

Date: 8 Sept 2008

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