OREANDA-NEWS. March 11, 2013. General Steel Holdings, Inc. ("General Steel" or the "Company") (NYSE: GSI), a leading non-state-owned steel producer in China, announced the appointment of Asia Bride Capital Limited ("ABC") as its newly retained investor relations and capital markets advisor.

"We're very pleased to bring on ABC as a strategic advisor to help enhance our investor communications and broaden our capital markets outreach," said Henry Yu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Steel, "As we diligently work to complete our 2012 quarterly and annual filing requirements, we aim with ABC's help to regularly connect with our supportive shareholders and to further expand our capital markets audience."

John Chen, Chief Financial Officer of General Steel, added, "The team at ABC possesses strong expertise in financial analysis and deep knowledge of the U.S. capital markets.  Such expertise and knowledge will help GSI better communicate with both institutional and individual investors and improve transparency.  Prior to this appointment, ABC had in goodwill provided excellent support to our financial team in various internal projects, and we were quite impressed with ABC's demonstrated ability to quickly understand our business and identify key drivers to our financial model.  We look forward to working closely with ABC, as we begin a new chapter in the Company's development."