Gushan Environmental Energy Limited to Hold Annual General Meeting on November 25, 2011

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gushan Environmental Energy Limited ("Gushan" or the "Company"; NYSE: GU), a leading producer of biodiesel in China, announced today that it will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders at Room 908, China Merchants Tower, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, on November 25, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., local time. Only holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on October 20, 2011, New York time, are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Gushan has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") ("Form 20-F"). Gushan's Form 20-F can be accessed on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://www.chinagushan.com/en/, as well as on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. Shareholders may request a hard copy of the Form 20-F free of charge by calling 852-2587-7212 or emailing to [email protected].  

About Gushan Environmental Energy Limited

Gushan is a leader in the PRC biodiesel industry, in terms of annual production capacity, and one of the leading biodiesel producers in Asia, in terms of nominal capacity. Gushan produces biodiesel, a renewable, clean-burning and biodegradable fuel and a raw material used to produce chemical products, primarily from used cooking oil, and by-products from biodiesel production, including glycerine and plant asphalt. Gushan sells biodiesel directly to users, such as marine vessel operators and chemical factories, as well as to petroleum wholesalers and individual retail gas stations. The Company has seven biodiesel production facilities, located in the Sichuan, Hebei, Fujian and Hunan provinces and in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, with a combined annual production capacity of 490,000 tons. Gushan's Sichuan production facility is currently in operation. Gushan also operates a recycled copper products business through its PRC subsidiaries, Mianyang Jin Xin Copper Company Limited ("Jin Xin"), and Hunan Yin Lian Xiangbei Copper Company Limited ("Xiangbei"), which manufacture copper rods, copper wires, copper granules, copper bars and copper plates primarily from recycled copper and some electrolytic copper, in Sichuan and Hunan, respectively. Jin Xin has one plant in Sichuan, with a daily production capacity of approximately 160 tons of recycled copper products and Xiangbei has one plant in Hunan, with a daily production capacity of approximately 50 tons of recycled copper products.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "will," "may," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "target," "intend," "plan," "believe," "estimate," "potential," "continue," and other similar statements. Statements other than statements of historical facts in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, the Company's expectations regarding the expansion of its production capacities, its future business development, and its beliefs regarding its production output. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry. Important risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from expectations include but are not limited to the effect of any applicable government policy, law or regulation, of natural disasters, and of intensifying competition in the biodiesel and alternative energy industries, the availability of suitable raw materials to the Company, and the risks set forth in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including on Form 20-F. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that its expectations will turn out to be correct, and investors are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results.

SOURCE Gushan Environmental Energy Limited