YANZHOU COAL MINING COMPANY LIMITED

Address: 298 Fushan South Road, Shandong Province, China Tel: (86537) 5385343 Fax: (86537) 5383311

August 24, 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 August 22, 2016 on its Annual Report on Form 20-F. We are in the process of preparing our response to the Commission’s comments. As such, we hereby respectfully submit to the Commission our request for an extension on the submission date to September 20, 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