YANZHOU COAL MINING COMPANY LIMITED
Address: 298 Fushan South Road, Shandong Province, China Tel: (86) 537 5382319 Fax: (86) 537 5383311
July 13, 2016
VIA EDGAR
Mr. Rufus Decker
Accounting Branch Chief
Office of Beverages, Apparel, and Mining
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate Finance
Washington, D.C. 20549
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited Form 20-F
for the Year Ended December 31, 2015 Filed April 26, 2016
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited (the Company or we) refers to the comments of the Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) dated July 11, 2016 on its Annual Report on Form 20-F. We are in the process of preparing our response to the Commissions comments. As such, we hereby respectfully submit to the Commission our request for an extension on the submission date to August 8, 2016.
Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to receiving your written confirmation of the extension.
Yours sincerely, |
/S/ WU Xiangqian |
WU Xiangqian, Director and General Manager |
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited |
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