Hutchison China Medi - Holding(s) in Company

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Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:31am EDT 

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Hutchison China Meditech Limited
31 March 2008


                  Hutchison China MediTech Limited ("Chi-Med")
                                   (AIM: HCM)

                               Holding in Company

London, Monday, 31 March 2008: Chi-Med today announces that it received
notification on 28 March 2008 that as at 27 March 2008, Lansdowne Partners
Limited Partnership controlled 3,440,000 shares in Chi-Med, representing
approximately 6.7% of the total issued shares of Chi-Med. These shares were
registered under Morstan Nominees Limited, of which 3,284,492 shares were held
on behalf of Lansdowne UK Equity Fund Limited and 155,508 shares were held on
behalf of Lansdowne UK Equity Fund L.P.  respectively.

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Enquiries

  Chi-Med                                    Telephone: +852 2121 8200
  Christian Hogg, CEO

  Citigate Dewe Rogerson                     Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7638 9571
  Anthony Carlisle                           +44 (0) 7973 611 888
  David Dible                                +44 (0) 7967 566 919

About Chi-Med

Chi-Med is the holding company of a pharmaceutical and healthcare group focused
on traditional Chinese medicine ("TCM") based primarily in China and was
admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock
Exchange in May 2006. Chi-Med operates three core business segments: 1) China
healthcare - the manufacture, distribution and marketing of pharmaceuticals and
health supplements in China; 2) Drug R&D - the discovery and global development
of novel drug in the oncology and auto-immune therapeutic areas; and 3) Consumer
products - global retailing and distribution consumer health and personal care
products derived from TCM and botanical ingredients.

Chi-Med is majority owned by Hutchison Whampoa Limited, an international company
listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.


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