**EXHIBIT        31.1**

**CERTIFICATION**

**By        Principal Executive Officer**

**Pursuant        to Rules 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)**

**under        the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended**

| 4.                  The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for                  establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures                  (as                  defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal                  control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules                  13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and we                  have: |
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|   | a) | designed                  such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure                  controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to                  ensure                  that material information relating to the registrant, including                  its                  consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within                  those                  entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report                  is                  being prepared; |
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|   | b) | designed                  such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such                  internal                  control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,                  to                  provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial                  reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external                  purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting                  principles; |
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|   | c) | evaluated                  the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                  and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness                  of                  the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period                  covered                  by this report based on such evaluation;                  and |
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|   | d) | disclosed                  in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over                  financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent                  fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely                  to                  materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial                  reporting. |
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| 5.                  The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on                  our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,                  to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's                  board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent                  function): |
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|   | a) | all                  significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design                  or                  operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                  reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record,                  process, summarize and report financial information;                  and |
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|   | b) | any                  fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                  employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control                  over financial reporting. |
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| Dated:                  April 10, 2008 |   | /s/                  Ming Zhao                                                                                        |
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|                                   |   | Ming                  Zhao                                                                                                 |
|                                   |   | Chief                  Executive Officer(principal                  executive officer of Puda Coal,                  Inc.) |

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