OREANDA-NEWS. January 15, 2014. General Steel Holdings, Inc. ("General Steel" or the "Company") (NYSE: GSI), a leading non-state-owned steel producer in China, today announced the proposals (the "Proposals") brought before the Company's stockholders (the "Stockholders") at its 2013 annual meeting of the Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting").

The Stockholders took the following actions regarding the Proposals:

Elected five members to General Steel's Board of Directors to serve until the annual meeting of Stockholders to be held in 2014 and until their respective successors are elected and qualified;

Ratified the appointment of Friedman LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013;

Approved and ratified an amendment to the Company's 2008 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance thereunder to 5,000,000;

Approved, on a non-binding basis, the compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers; and

Approved a reverse stock split (the "Reverse Split") of the Company's common stock, pursuant to which, each Stockholder will receive one share of the Company's common stock in exchange for every two, three or four shares of the Company's common stock owned at the effective time of the Reverse Split, with the exact ratio to be determined by the Company's Board of Directors.

Company regained compliance with continued listing standards of minimum share price requirement; Board deemed Reverse Split unnecessary at this time:

At the Annual Meeting, Stockholders holding a total of approximately 70% of the Company's common stock voted in favor of the Reverse Split. The Reverse Split intended to aid the Company in regaining compliance with the New York Stock Exchange's (the "NYSE") minimum average closing price continued listing standard (the "Continued Listing Standard"). On December 6, 2013, the Company received confirmation from the NYSE that it had regained compliance with the Continued Listing Standard of minimum share price requirement of USD 1.00, after its closing price and 30-trading day average price reached USD 1.07 and USD 1.00, respectively, on November 29, 2013. Therefore, the board of directors of the Company decided not to effectuate the Reverse Split at this time, although it may still do so in the future if it determines that such actions are in the best interests of the Company and the Stockholders.