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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193805-18-000950
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20180705
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180709
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180709

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GULF RESOURCES, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000885462
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
		IRS NUMBER:				133637458
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-34499
		FILM NUMBER:		18943429

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		99 WENCHANG RD, CHEMING INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		UNIT - HAOYUAN CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
		CITY:			SHOUGUANG CITY, SHANDONG
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			262714
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(310) 470-2886

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		99 WENCHANG RD, CHEMING INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		UNIT - HAOYUAN CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
		CITY:			SHOUGUANG CITY, SHANDONG
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			262714

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	DIVERSIFAX INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19940331
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">On July 5, 2018, Gulf Resources, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;),
issued a press release announcing anticipated further delay in the opening of its bromine plants in light of new rules jointly
issued by various provincial government agencies in Shandong Province (the &ldquo;Notice&rdquo;) forwarded by the Weifang City
Special Operations Leading Group Office of Safe Production, Transformation and Upgrading of Chemical Industry (the &ldquo;Notice&rdquo;).</P>

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of the Notice are furnished as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 hereto.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">(d) Exhibits</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 18pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">Gulf Resources announces further temporary
delay in the opening of its bromine plants</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">SHOUGUANG, China, July 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- Gulf Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:GURE) (&quot;Gulf Resources&quot; or the &quot;Company&quot;), a leading manufacturer of bromine,
crude salt, specialty chemical products, and natural gas in China, today announced a further temporary delay in the opening of
its bromine plants situated in Shandong Province, China.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">On June 29 2018, the Company received a formal
notice (dated June 25, 2018) jointly issued by various provincial government agencies in Shandong Province (the &ldquo;Notice&rdquo;)
forwarded by the Weifang City Special Operations Leading Group Office of Safe Production, Transformation and Upgrading of Chemical
Industry.&nbsp; In the Notice, the provincial government agencies have set forth further requirements and procedures covering the
following four aspects for the chemical industrial enterprises (which includes our bromine plants): project approval, planning
approval, land use rights approval and environmental protection assessment approval.&nbsp; Those standards and procedures apply
to all chemical industrial enterprises in Shandong Province that have not completed project approval procedures, planning approval
procedures, land use rights approval procedures and environmental protection assessment procedures. &nbsp;The Company believes
that the government will not grant approval to open the Company&rsquo;s plants until the Company has fully complied with the aforesaid
rules set forth in the Notice.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">Since bromine is considered to be a chemical,
the Company believes all of the Company&rsquo;s bromine plants are subject to the Notice and that implementation of the Notice
will cause a delay in opening the Company&rsquo;s bromine plants as a result due to the now prolonged inspection and approval process.
Prior to this Notice, the Company completed the rectification and improvement within factory areas required by the local government
agencies. The current outstanding issues are (1) finding a solution for co-production of bromine and crude salt at 4 of the 10
bromine plants regarding its rectification and improvement (2) building the new aqueduct required by government rectification and
improvement.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">Among the four required approvals set forth
in the notice, the Company had already completed the safety production and environmental protection assessment for all of its 10
bromine plants. &nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">The other three issues relate to all bromine
plants in Shouguang City including the Company&rsquo;s all bromine plants, except plant No.1, which already has its factory area
land use certificate. While Shouguang City agreed to the Company leasing land and approved the establishment of our all bromine
plants, it did not require nor grant us the project approval, land use rights approval, and planning approval that the provincial
government is now requiring pursuant to the Notice.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">The Shouguang City Bromine Association, on
behalf of all the bromine plants in Shouguang, has started discussions with the local government agencies. The local governmental
agencies, realized that the original requirements for the bromine industry that they established were lacking in project approval,
planning approval and land use rights approval and now the requirements need improvement according to the requirements of the provincial
government. The local government is &nbsp;coordinating with several government departments to solve these three outstanding approval
issues as quickly as possible, however, the bromine plants cannot commence production until obtain those approvals.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">The Company is not certain how long the temporary
delay will be due to the discussions between Shouguang City Bromine Association and local government agencies. The Company believes
that this is another step by the government to improve the environment. It further believes the goal of the government is not to
close all plants, but rather to codify the regulations related to project approval, land use, planning approval and environmental
protection assessment approval so that illegal plants are not able to open in the future and so that plants close to population
centers do not cause serious environmental damage. In addition, the Company believes that the Shandong provincial government wants
to assure that each of its regional and county governments has applied the Notice in a consistent manner.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">The Company does not anticipate that the Company&rsquo;s
new chemical factory will be significantly impacted by the Notice.&nbsp; The Company has secured from the government the land use
rights for its chemical plants located at the Bohai Marine Fine Chemical Industry Park and presented a completed construction design
draft and other related documents to the local authorities for approval. The Company was expecting to receive feedback from the
local authorities. However, the Company does believe there could be a delay for the approval process given the ongoing rectification
and approvals process for the Company&rsquo;s other plants.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">Mr. Liu , the CEO of Gulf Resources, stated,
&ldquo;We are committed to communicating effectively on a consistent basis with our shareholders. We, obviously, have no control
over the desire of the government to implement regulations that will improve the environment and the health of the people. However,
we believe that, working with the Bromine Association, we will be able to resolve this issue in the relatively near future.&rdquo;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left"><B>About Gulf Resources, Inc.</B><BR>
Gulf Resources, Inc. operates through four wholly-owned subsidiaries, Shouguang City Haoyuan Chemical Company Limited (&quot;SCHC&quot;),
Shouguang Yuxin Chemical Industry Co., Limited (&quot;SYCI&quot;), and Daying County Haoyuan Chemical Company Limited (&ldquo;DCHC&rdquo;).
The company believes that it is one of the largest producers of bromine in China. Elemental Bromine is used to manufacture a wide
variety of compounds utilized in industry and agriculture.&nbsp;Through SYCI, the company manufactures chemical products utilized
in a variety of applications, including oil and gas field explorations and papermaking chemical agents, and materials for human
and animal antibiotics. DCHC was established to further explore and develop natural gas and brine resources (including bromine
and crude salt) in China. For more information, visit&nbsp;<U>www.gulfresourcesinc.com</U>.</P>

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forward-looking information about Gulf Resources and its subsidiaries' business and products within the meaning of Rule 175 under
the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and are subject to the safe harbor created
by those rules. The actual results may differ materially depending on a number of risk factors including, but not limited to, the
general economic and business conditions in the PRC, future product development and production capabilities, shipments to end customers,
market acceptance of new and existing products, additional competition from existing and new competitors for bromine and other
oilfield and power production chemicals, changes in technology, the ability to make future bromine asset purchases, and various
other factors beyond its control. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this Cautionary Statement
and the risk factors detailed in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gulf Resources undertakes
no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">CONTACT:&nbsp;Gulf&nbsp;Resources,&nbsp;Inc.<BR>
Web:&nbsp;http://www.gulfresourcesinc.com<BR>
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Director&nbsp;of&nbsp;Investor&nbsp;Relations<BR>
Helen&nbsp;Xu&nbsp;(Haiyan&nbsp;Xu)<BR>
beishengrong@vip.163.com</P>

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Group Office of Safe Production, Transformation and Upgrading of Chemical Industry </B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Weifang SALG No. [2018] 53</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">RE: &ldquo;Notice on Accelerating the Special
Rectification of Issues of Chemical Industry Companies that are in Violation of Regulations&rdquo; as forwarded by the <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Weifang
City Special Operations Leading Group Office of Safe Production, Transformation and Upgrading of Chemical Industry</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">The People's Governments of Local municipalities
and Counties, and Your Respective Development Administration Committees and Other relevant Agencies:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: left">Forwarded to you herewith is the &ldquo;Notice
on the Accelerating the Special Rectification of Issues of Chemical Industry Companies that are in Violation of Regulations&rdquo;
(Shandong EI Committee No. [2018] 205) for implementation.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in">Weifang City Special
Operations Leading Group Office of Safe Production, Transformation and Upgrading of Chemical Industry</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Notice on Accelerating the Special Rectification
of Chemical Industry Companies in Violation of Regulations&rdquo; </B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Shandong EI Committee No. [2018] 205)</P>

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Only</U></I>]</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Based on the feedback from the office of
the working group of Shandong Environmental Protection Supervising Office regarding Central Environmental Protection Supervising
Office&rsquo;s comments, those chemical factories that have not gone through project approval, planning, land use and environmental
impact assessment procedures must immediately be shut down for rectification. Since March 2018, the Economic and Information Committee,
Development and Reform Committee, State Land Use Committee, Housing Construction Committee and Environmental Protection Office
of the Province initiated special project rectification work with regards to those factories that are in violation of regulations.
For the purpose of accelerating this work, the following areas require special attention.</P>

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Procedures</B></TD>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 21pt"><B>II.</B></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><B>Highlight Key Improvement Areas and Promote Rectification in Accordance with the Law</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify">(1) Cleaning up, and rectifying
issues of, chemical companies with complete project approval procedures.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21pt">In accordance
with the relevant government regulations, those chemical companies that lack complete project approvals must be ordered to stop
construction and/or production or follow other law enforcement orders. Those chemical factory projects that meet project approval
requirements should apply, in principal before June 30, for the issuance of a certificate of approval with Development and Reform
Committee based on their original project approval filings.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify">(2) Cleaning up, and rectifying
issues of, chemical companies with incomplete planning procedures</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in">Those chemical
factories that do not have complete planning documents will be punished by the government. But those that have complied with the
requirements of the urban and rural planning and the nature of land use and that were built before June 27, 2017 may be issued
planning approval documents upon filing relevant application.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify">(3) Cleaning up, and rectifying
issues of, chemical companies with incomplete land use procedures</P>

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companies that occupy the land illegally will be sanctioned by the municipal and county authorities in accordance with the Land
Management Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and regulations. If any company fails to comply with such sanction,
then a court order will be applied for to the people's court for enforcement of such sanction.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify">(4) Cleaning up, and rectifying
issues of, chemical companies with incomplete environmental protection assessment procedures</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify">Chemical companies and projects
with incomplete environmental protection assessment procedures must be ordered to shut down production or construction in accordance
with the Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China. The environmental protection agencies of municipal and
county governments must place such companies and projects under monitoring and strengthen the routine oversight and inspection
of such companies and projects. Those that had been order to shut down but resumed construction without authorization will be investigated
and sanctioned in accordance with the law and regulations.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21pt">Those chemical
companies that completed construction and were put into production before June 27, 2017, upon completing relevant procedures, may
be exempt from the chemical industry zoning restriction of the local governments, provided that other conditions must be strictly
satisfied and that they are approved by the people&rsquo;s governments above the county level.</P>

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governance efforts</B></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">(1) Strictly
review applications and carry out rectification work in accordance with the law.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">(2) Implement
parallel management by following both the list of positive companies and the list of negative companies.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 63pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">(3) Provide
timely report on the work status.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>Shandong Province Economic and Information
Technology Committee</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>Shandong Province Development and Reform
Committee</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>Shandong Province State Land Resources
Office</B></P>

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and Construction Office</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>Shandong Province Environmental Protection
Office</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>June 4, 2018</B></P>

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