Gushan Environmental Energy Limited Announces Date of First Quarter 2011 Results Release and Conference Call with Investors

NEW YORK, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gushan Environmental Energy Limited ("Gushan" or the "Company"; NYSE: GU) announces that it will submit its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2011 on Form 6-K to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, May 26, 2011, to be followed by a conference call on the same day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (or 8:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time) to discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.

To join the conference call, please use the dial-in details below:

An audio webcast will also be available at http://www.chinagushan.com

A replay of the call will be available on the same day at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (or 11:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time) until June 2, 2011. To listen to the replay, please use the dial in details below:

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 vegetable oil offal and used cooking oil, and by-products from biodiesel production, including glycerine, plant asphalt, erucic acid and erucic amide. 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 production facilities, located in the Sichuan, Hebei, Fujian and Hunan provinces and in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, with a combined annual production capacity of 390,000 tons. Gushan's Hebei and Beijing production facilities are currently in operation. Gushan also operates a recycled copper business through Mianyang Jin Xin Copper Company Limited ("Jin Xin"), a 75%-owned subsidiary, that manufactures copper rods, copper wires and copper granules from recycled copper in Sichuan. Jin Xin has one plant in Sichuan, with a daily production capacity of approximately 160 tons of recycled copper products.

Safe Harbor Statement

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SOURCE Gushan Environmental Energy Limited