Shenhua Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shenhua Group Co., Ltd.) is a wholly state-owned company established in October 1995 with the approval of the State Council. It is an important state-owned backbone enterprise directly under the central government. It is a super-large energy enterprise based on coal, integrating electricity, railways, ports, shipping, coal-to-oil and coal chemical industry, and operates in one-stop production, transportation and sales. It is currently the largest coal enterprise in my country and the largest coal supplier in the world. It mainly operates state-owned assets within the scope of authorized by the State Council, develops resource products such as coal, and conducts investment and management in industries such as electricity, heat, ports, railways, shipping, coal-to-oil, and coal chemical industry; plans, organizes, coordinates and manages the production and operation activities of enterprises affiliated to Shenhua Group in the above-mentioned industries. Headquartered in Beijing. China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd., which was exclusively initiated by Shenhua Group, is listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively. Shenhua Group ranked 196th among the Fortune Global 500 companies in 2015.

As of the end of 2015, Shenhua Group had 21 wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries, 54 coal mines put into production, a total installed capacity of 78.51 million kilowatts of power plants, a 2,155-kilometer self-operated railway, a port and coal terminal with a throughput capacity of 270 million tons, and a shipping company with 40 ships, with a total assets of 931.4 billion yuan and a registered employee of 208,000.