SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company (the “Company” or “Tongjitang”) (NYSE: TCM - News), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on the development, manufacturing, marketing and selling of modernized traditional Chinese medicine in China, today announced that it will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 at the Company’s executive office on 5th Floor, Block B, Nanshan Medical Device Park, 1019 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518067 Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China on December 23, 2009 at 11 a.m. (local time). The meeting is being held to provide a forum for the Company’s chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer to report on company affairs, and for management and holders of the Company’s ordinary shares or ADSs to discuss the progress and direction of the Company’s business. No proposal is expected to be submitted to the shareholders for voting at the meeting.
Holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares at the close of business on December 7, 2009 (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of and to attend the annual general meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof in person. Beneficial owners of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) as of the Record Date are welcome to attend the meeting in person.
The Company has filed its annual report on Form 20-F (the “Annual Report”), which includes the Company’s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Company’s Annual Report and the notice of the 2009 annual general meeting can be accessed on the investor relations section of its website at http://www.tongjitang.co..., as well as on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
Holders of the Company’s ordinary shares or ADSs may obtain a hard copy of the Annual Report free of charge by emailing to ir@tongjitang.com or by writing to:
| 5th Floor, Block B, Nanshan Medical Device Park, |
| 1019 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, |
| Guangdong Province, China, Post Code 518067 |
| Attention: Mr. Mingyue Gao |
About Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company
Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company, through its operating subsidiaries Tongjitang Pharmaceutical, Tongjitang Distribution, Tongjitang Chain Stores, Guizhou Long-Life Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Qinghai Pulante and Anhui Jingfang, is a vertically integrated specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, marketing and selling of modernized traditional Chinese medicine in China. Tongjitang’s principal executive offices are located in Shenzhen, China.
Tongjitang’s flagship product, Xianling Gubao, is the leading traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of osteoporosis in China as measured by sales in Renminbi. In addition to Xianling Gubao, the Company manufactures and markets 36 other modernized traditional Chinese medicine products and 37 western medicines. Please visit www.tongjitang.com for more information.

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