APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENT

Air China Ld
01 February 2007

                               AIR CHINA LIMITED



(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China
                            with limited liability)

                               (Stock Code: 753)


                             CHANGE AND APPOINTMENT
                                       OF
                          PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

                       (Overseas Regulatory Announcement)


The 28th meeting of the 1st Board of Directors of Air China Limited (the
Company) considered and resolved in writing that due to personnel transfer, Mr.
Ma Xulun cease to act as the President of the Company, and the Company hereby
expresses its gratitude to Mr. Ma Xulun for his contribution to the Company
during his term of office; Mr. Cai Jianjiang be appointed as the President of
the Company; and Mr. Tan Zhihong be appointed as the Vice President of the
Company. The changes and appointments referred to above shall become effective
as of 1 February 2007.

The independent directors of the Company have no objection to the resolution
above. The biography of Mr. Cai Jianjiang has already been disclosed in the
Company's 2005 annual report.

Mr. Tan Zhihong, aged 56, the current general manager of the Southwest Branch of
the Company, graduated from Sichuan International Studies University with major
in English in 1975. In August 1975, he joined the Beijing Administrative Bureau
of Civil Aviation of China. From April 1981 to September 1985, he worked at the
London office of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China as the
commercial officer and from September 1985 to March 1988, he served as the
deputy director of the international passengers office of the passengers
transportation department of the transportation division, and the director of
the scheduling and distribution division, of the Beijing Administrative Bureau
of Civil Aviation of China. From March 1988 to August 1998, he served in various
positions such as the deputy manager and manager of Air China Transportation
Services Company, the director of the passengers transportation division of Air
China as well as the general manager of the ground services department of Air
China. From August 1998 to September 2004, he was the general manager of the
Inner Mongolia Branch and Tianjin Branch of Air China respectively. Since
September 2004 to date, he serves as the general manager of Southwest Branch of
the Company.



                             By order of the Board
                               Air China Limited
                           Zheng Baoan     Li Man Kit
                           Joint Company Secretaries


Beijing, 31 January 2007


As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are Messrs Li
Jiaxiang, Kong Dong, Wang Shixiang, Yao Weiting, Christopher Dale Pratt, Ma
Xulun, Cai Jianjiang, Fan Cheng, Hu Hung Lick, Henry*, Wu Zhipan*, Zhang Ke* and
Jia Kang*.

*  Independent non-executive Director of the Company


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