10:49 INTERCHINA HOLD<00202> - Announcement (5) Special Administrative Region of the PRC and Taiwan "PRC Party" the People's Government of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province (*), which together with its ultimate beneficial owners, are to the best of the Directors' knowledge, information and belief having made all reasonable enquiry, third parties independent of the Group and connected persons (as defined under the Listing Rules) of the Group and which is not related to the counter-parties to the proposed acquisition of a sewage treatment plant in Shanghai, the PRC (the details of which were set out in the announcement of the Company dated 13 April 2005) "Sewage Treatment the project to finance, design, construct, own, manage, maintain and Plants Project" operate two sewage treatment plants in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, the PRC, pursuant to the Co-operation Agreement "Stock Exchange" The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited "WFOE" the wholly foreign-owned enterprise to be established by the Group in the PRC to develop the Sewage Treatment Plants Project "HK$" Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong "RMB" Renminbi, the lawful currency of the PRC By order of the Board INTERCHINA HOLDINGS COMPANY LIMITED Lam Cheung Shing, Richard Director and Company Secretary For the purpose of this announcement, the conversion rate of RMB shall be HK$1.00 = RMB1.06 Hong Kong, 11 May 2005