Directorate Change

JP Morgan Flem Chinese Inv Tst PLC
02 February 2005



                        STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

               JPMORGAN FLEMING CHINESE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC



2nd February 2005

Board Changes

The Board of JPMorgan Fleming Chinese Investment Trust plc is pleased to
announce the appointment of Mr Irving Koo and Ms Yujiang Zhao as non-executive
Directors with effect from 1st February 2005.

Mr Irving Koo is founder and managing director of Trion Pacific Limited, a Hong
Kong-based consultancy specialising in marketing and communication solutions. He
was formerly a director of Jardine Pacific Limited with specific responsibility
for the group's trading and distribution activities and later its travel
services portfolio, and more recently Group Marketing & Corporate Relations
director of CLP Holdings.  He was also chairman of the British Chamber of
Commerce in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2000 and is currently an executive committee
member of the Hong Kong Management Association.  Mr Koo's in-depth knowledge of
China and its surrounding economies will be of great benefit to the Board.

Ms Zhao has been active in China's capital markets for the last twenty years.
She is currently a director and senior adviser of Mahon China, a foreign private
equity management firm in China.  She spent six years as an economist at the
State Commission for Restructuring the Economic Systems in the '80s, helping to
shape China's financial reform policies and also acted as managing director of a
foreign investment bank responsible for operations in China and Hong Kong for
nine years.  Ms. Zhao's considerable knowledge of finance, economics, and the
politico-legal system in China, along with her extensive network of contacts,
will be a valuable resource for the Company.


In accordance with paragraph 16.4 of the FSA Listing Rules a further disclosure
will be made within 14 days.







For further information, please contact:



Lucy Sullivan.............................................020 7742 6000
J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management (UK) Limited - Secretary


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