# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001477641
**File Stem:** 0001104659-23-032757
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-23-032757.hdr.sgml**: 20230315

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-23-032757

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 6-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230315

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230315

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230315

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001477641
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SEMICONDUCTORS & RELATED DEVICES [3674]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** E9
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 6-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-34602
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23735061

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 666 LONGDU AVENUE
- **CITY:** WANZHOU, CHONGQING
- **STATE:** F4
- **ZIP:** 404000
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (86-23) 6486-6666

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 666 LONGDU AVENUE
- **CITY:** WANZHOU, CHONGQING
- **STATE:** F4
- **ZIP:** 404000

**UNITED STATES<br> SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 6-K**

**REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER<br> PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE<br> SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**For the month of March 2023**

**Commission File Number: 001-34602**

**DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.** 

**Unit 29D, Huadu Mansion, 838 Zhangyang Road,** 

**Shanghai, 200122** 

**The People's Republic of China** 

**(+86-21) 5075-2918**

**(Address of principal executive office)**

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F ⌧ Form 40-F ◻

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b) (1): ◻

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**EXHIBIT INDEX**

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| **Number** | **Description of Document** |
| [Exhibit 99.1](tm239652d1_ex99-1.htm) | [Press release](tm239652d1_ex99-1.htm) |

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

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|  | **DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.** | **DAQO NEW ENERGY CORP.** |
|  | By: | /s/ Longgen Zhang |
|  | Name: | Longgen Zhang |
|  | Title: | Director and Chief Executive Officer |
| Date: March 15, 2023 |  |  |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**Exhibit 99.1**

**Daqo New Energy's Subsidiary Xinjiang Daqo Proposes Cash Dividend Plan for 2022 to Its Annual Shareholders' Meeting For Approval**

Shanghai, China—March 15, 2023—Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo New Energy", the "Company" or "we"), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, today announced that its subsidiary Xinjiang Daqo's board of directors had approved its cash dividend plan for 2022 and proposed it to Xinjiang Daqo's annual shareholders' meeting for approval on April 8, 2023.

For the year ended December 31, 2022, the net profit attributable to Xinjiang Daqo's shareholders was RMB 19,120,871,257. Xinjiang Daqo's board of directors has approved the plan to pay cash dividend to Xinjiang Daqo's shareholders (including Daqo New Energy) in the aggregate amount of RMB 7,694,626,374 which accounts for 40.24% of the net profit attributable to Xinjiang Daqo's shareholders in 2022. This plan still needs to be submitted to Xinjiang Daqo's annual shareholders meeting for approval on April 8, 2023. As of the date of this press release, Daqo New Energy beneficially owns 72.7% of the equity interest in Xinjiang Daqo.

**About Daqo New Energy Corp.**

Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo" or the "Company") is a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry. Founded in 2007, the Company manufactures and sells high-purity polysilicon to photovoltaic product manufactures, who further process the polysilicon into ingots, wafers, cells and modules for solar power solutions. The Company has a total polysilicon nameplate capacity of 105,000 metric tons and is one of the world's lowest cost producers of high-purity polysilicon.

For more information, please visit www.dqsolar.com

**Safe Harbor Statement**

This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "might," "guidance" and similar statements. Among other things, statements about the Company's plan to distribute dividends contain forward-looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond the Company's control. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the demand for photovoltaic products and the development of photovoltaic technologies; global supply and demand for polysilicon; alternative technologies in cell manufacturing; the Company's ability to significantly expand its polysilicon production capacity and output; the reduction in or elimination of government subsidies and economic incentives for solar energy applications; the Company's ability to lower its production costs; changes in the political and regulatory environment; and the duration of COVID-19 outbreaks in China and many other countries and the impact of the outbreaks and the quarantines and travel restrictions instituted by relevant governments on economic and market conditions, including potentially weaker global demand for solar PV installations that could adversely affect the Company's business and financial performance. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the reports or documents the Company has filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information or any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.