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Beijing Tongrentang Company Limited Shares And IWF Increase In The S&P/CITIC 300 Index

Date 21/09/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/CITIC 300 Index effective after the close of trading Wednesday, September 22, 2004:
  • Beijing Tongrentang Company Limited (China, SEDOL: 6003542, GICS: Health Care, GICS Code: 35202010), a member of the S&P/CITIC 300 Index, free-float A shares will increase by 29,884,982 to 129,501,590. This change is due to a rights issue offered at the issue ratio of 10:3. There will also be a change to the IWF.

Following is a summary of the announced changes:

S&P/CITIC 300 Index – September 22, 2004 after the market close

S&P Index Company Name

New Free Float Shares

New IWF

S&P/CITIC 300 Beijing Tongrentang Company Limited 129,501,590 0.3581

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