Shanxi Meijin Energy Co., Ltd.

Shanxi Meijin Energy Co., Ltd. is a manufacturing company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 1997. It specializes in the production and sales of coal, coking products, natural gas, and new energy vehicles, particularly hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The company operates a fully integrated industrial chain that encompasses coal, coke, gas, chemicals, and hydrogen, leveraging its substantial reserves of coal and coalbed methane resources. The company's main business lines include coal mining, coke production, and hydrogen energy development. It owns four coal mines with a significant production capacity and has established itself as one of the larger independent producers of merchant coke and coking coal in China. Additionally, Shanxi Meijin Energy is actively involved in the hydrogen energy sector, utilizing by-products from its coking processes to produce hydrogen. The company has developed a comprehensive industrial ecosystem that supports the production, storage, transportation, and application of hydrogen energy, positioning itself as a key player in the transition to low-carbon energy solutions.

(I) Circular Economy Advantages The company has established a complete integrated industrial chain of "coal-coke-gas-chemicals-hydrogen", forming circular economy advantages that enable it to effectively respond to industry fluctuations, improve operational efficiency, facilitate long-term development, supplement operating funds, optimize capital structure, and reduce comprehensive costs. The company is at the forefront of circular economy development in the coking industry. (II) Hydrogen Energy Advantages Amid the global energy transition, the company has built core competitiveness in the hydrogen energy industry through multi-dimensional strengths, emerging as a leader in industry development. Resource Coordination Advantage: Relying on its main coking business, the company has formed unique resource endowments. Coke oven gas, a by-product of the coking process, contains 55% hydrogen, and advanced technologies can extract high-purity hydrogen (99.999%). This has established a low-cost, large-scale hydrogen supply system. With the layout and advancement of hydrogen production projects in Taiyuan, Guizhou, Luanzhou, and other regions, the company’s annual hydrogen production is about to exceed 20,000 tons, laying a solid resource foundation for industrial development and achieving synergistic efficiency between energy production and environmental protection. Industrial Agglomeration Advantage: The company has formed a fully connected industrial ecosystem, building a complete closed-loop covering "production-storage-transportation-refueling-application" from upstream hydrogen preparation and storage/transportation, to midstream core equipment manufacturing, and downstream regional market expansion. By gathering over 20 leading enterprises in 细分领域，it has achieved independent control of core technologies, strengthened collaborative linkage across industrial chain links, enhanced overall industrial resilience and risk resistance, and formed irreplicable industrial barriers. Regional Layout Advantage: With seven strategic regions as core support, the company has initially completed the construction of a national hydrogen energy network. In key economic belts such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Bohai Rim, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, it has formed regional industrial chain closed-loops and enterprise agglomeration effects through headquarters establishment and industrial park construction. This layout not only fully meets market demand but also rationally converts regional policy resources, providing broad space for hydrogen energy technology promotion and commercial application. Application Expansion Advantage: The company has realized the implementation of hydrogen energy application scenarios in multiple fields. Relying on new energy commercial vehicle manufacturing bases, it has launched diversified models in the transportation field. Through demonstration projects such as "zero-carbon logistics corridors", green public transport demonstration routes, and hydrogen locomotives, it has verified the feasibility and economy of hydrogen energy in commercial scenarios. Rich application practices have not only accelerated technological iteration but also promoted hydrogen energy from laboratory to industrialization, forming a 良性循环 of "application-feedback-upgrade". Technological Innovation Advantage: The company continues to increase R&D investment, with the number of intellectual property rights growing steadily. Its subsidiaries have achieved technological breakthroughs in key materials and core equipment such as carbon paper, membrane electrodes, and hydrogen production equipment, filling multiple domestic technological gaps and providing core technical support for the high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry. Overall, through synergistic efforts in five dimensions—resource coordination, industrial agglomeration, regional layout, application expansion, and technological innovation—the company has built core competitiveness covering the entire life cycle of hydrogen energy, setting a benchmark for the large-scale development of China’s hydrogen energy industry. (III) Resource Advantages The company has abundant reserves of coal and coalbed methane resources. Its coal types are high-quality coking coal or coking blending coal, and it is gradually converting resource advantages into industrial advantages. It owns four major coal mines: Fenxi Taiyue Coal Industry, Dongyu Coal Industry, Jinfu Coal Industry, and Jinhui Coal Industry, with a total approved annual production capacity of 6.3 million tons. (IV) Customer and Location Advantages The company enjoys significant customer resource and location advantages. In terms of customer cooperation, relying on high-quality products and services, it has established long-term and stable cooperative relationships with large iron and steel enterprises such as Zongheng Iron and Steel, Benxi Iron and Steel, Hebei Xinda, Shanxi Jianlong, Yanshan Iron and Steel, Hebei Jingye, and Hebei Iron and Steel. This close cooperation is not only based on business alignment but also stems from the company’s good reputation accumulated in the industry, achieving resource sharing, mutual benefit, and win-win results in cooperation while jointly responding to market changes. In terms of location, the company is located in Shanxi Province, a national important energy and industrial base with unique geographical advantages. On the one hand, the province’s abundant energy resources provide a solid foundation for the company’s operations, effectively reducing production and transportation costs. On the other hand, Shanxi is located in North China, adjacent to markets in North, East, and Central China, enabling rapid response to customer needs, shortening product delivery cycles, and greatly improving customer service efficiency and market competitiveness. (V) Comprehensive Advantages The company has a stable professional team, reliable product quality, integrated production, transportation, and sales systems, and good customer relationships.