Treasury Stock

JPMorgan Chinese Inv Tst PLC
21 May 2007

                          STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

                     JPMORGAN CHINESE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

                                 TREASURY STOCK

JPMorgan Chinese Investment Trust plc announces that today in the market, it
purchased into treasury 500,000 ordinary shares at 97.0 pence per share.

Following this repurchase the Company now holds a total of 500,000 shares in
treasury at an average size-weighted discount of 9.96%.  The Company will only
re-issue shares held in treasury at a premium to net asset value.

The number of shares in issue less the total number of treasury shares is
74,962,001.


21st May 2007

For further information, please contact:

Lucy Dina
JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited - Secretary
020 7742 6000

Nathan Brown
Winterflood Investment Trusts - Stockbrokers to the Company
020 3100 0000




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