Announcement on Change of Legal Representative

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                  DATANG INTERNATIONAL POWER GENERATION CO., LTD.    
   (a sino-foreign joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's    
                              Republic of China)                               

                               (Stock Code: 991)                               

                           ANNOUNCEMENT ON CHANGE OF 
                              LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE
                          

Special Notice:                                                                
                                                                               
The board of directors (the "Board") and all directors (the "Directors") of the
Company warrant that there are no false representations and misleading         
statements contained in, or material omissions from, this announcement, and    
severally and jointly accept the responsibility for the truthfulness, accuracy 
and completeness of the content of this announcement.                          

The first meeting of the seventh session of the Board of Datang International
Power Generation Co., Ltd. (the "Company") has considered and approved the
"Resolution on the Election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Seventh
Session of the Board", and Mr Liu Shunda was elected Chairman of the seventh
session of the Board (details of which please refer to the announcement of the
Company dated 20 August 2010). Pursuant to the articles of association of the
Company, it is stipulated that the Chairman of the Board of the Company shall
be the legal representative of the Company. The Company has recently completed
the registration procedures of the change of legal representative with the
State Administration for Industry and Commerce. Mr Liu Shunda is therefore the
legal representative of the Company at present.


                                                          By Order of the Board
                                                                 Zhou Gang
                                                         Secretary to the Board

Beijing, the PRC, 11 October 2010

As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are: Liu
Shunda, Hu Shengmu, Cao Jingshan, Fang Qinghai, Zhou Gang, Liu Haixia, Guan
Tiangang, Su Tiegang, Ye Yonghui, Li Gengsheng, Li Yanmeng*, Zhao Zunlian*, Li
Hengyuan*, Zhao Jie*, Jiang Guohua*

* Independent non-executive Directors