[CONTACT Edward Wong, Chief Financial Officer 011-852-2810-7205 or cfo@chnr.net CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES RELEASES INTERIM RESULTS OF OPERATIONS HONG KONG, December 21, 2012 – CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES, INC. (NASDAQ: CHNR), a company based in the People’s Republic of China, today released unaudited interim financial information for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 as follows: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES, INC.] [Unaudited Results of Operations Furnished herewith on behalf of China Natural Resources, Inc. are the following: (a) Unaudited Financial Statements: - Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Operations And Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) For The Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 - Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2012 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2011 - Condensed Consolidated]

[Effective Date of Action by Written Consent of Members As previously reported in the Company’s definitive information statement relating to its 2012 annual meeting of members, on October 22, 2012, Feishang Mining Holdings Limited, the holder of 14,480,593 common shares (constituting approximately 58.1% of the Company’s outstanding common shares as of the October 19, 2012 record date), executed a written]