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OVERSEAS REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT

This announcement is made by New China Life Insurance Company Ltd. (the "Company") pursuant to Rule 13.10B of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. The announcement is hereby set out as follows for reference only.

By Order of the Board

New China Life Insurance Company Ltd.

LIU Haoling

Chairman

Beijing, China, 25 August 2020

As at the date of this announcement, the chairman and non-executive director of the Company is LIU Haoling, the executive director is LI Quan; the non-executive directors are YANG Yi, GUO Ruixiang, HU Aimin, LI Qiqiang, PENG Yulong and Edouard SCHMID; and the independent non-executive directors are LI Xianglu, ZHENG Wei, CHENG Lie, GENG Jianxin and MA Yiu Tim.

2020 Interim Results Announcement

26 Aug. 2020

Beijing, China

Disclaimer

  • These materials are for information purposes only and do not constitute or form part of an offer or invitation to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer or invitation to buy or subscribe for securities of New China Life Insurance Company Ltd. (the "Company") or any of its holding company or affiliates in any jurisdiction. No part of these materials shall form the basis of or be relied upon in connection with any contract or commitment whatsoever.
  • The information or opinions contained in these materials has not been independently verified. No representation or warranty, whether expressed or implied, is made as to, and no reliance should be placed on, the fairness, accuracy, completeness or correctness of such information or opinions contained herein. The information and opinions contained in these materials are provided as of the date of the presentation, are subject to change without notice and will not be updated or otherwise revised to reflect any developments, which may occur after the date of the presentation. The Company, any of its affiliates, directors, supervisors, senior managers, officers, employees, advisers and any of their respective representatives shall not have any liability whatsoever (in negligence or otherwise) for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon any information contained or presented in or derived from these materials or otherwise arising in connection with these materials.
  • These materials contain statements that reflect the Company's current beliefs and expectations about the future as of the respective dates indicated herein. These forward-looking statements are based on a number of assumptions about the Company's operations and businesses and on factors beyond the Company's control, and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, and, accordingly, the actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any of such forward-looking information. The Company assumes no obligation whatsoever to update or otherwise revise these forward-looking statements for new information, events or circumstances that emerge subsequent to such dates.

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OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW INSURANCE FINANCIALS & EMBEDDED

BUSINESS INVESTMENT VALUE

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Overview

"1+2+1"STRATEGY

OLD-AGE CARE

&

TECHNOLOGY EMPOWERMENT

HEALTHCARE

LIFE

INSURANCE

WEALTH

MANAGEMENT

Deepened synergy

Asset liability dual engines driving

volume and value growth

Absolute return responding to market fluctuations

Our vision: to be China's best financial service group with comprehensive life insurance business as its core

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Overview

COVID-19 impacted the life insurance industry in the first half of 2020. The Company made concerted efforts and took various measures to boost business growth.

Gross written premiums achieved rapid growth

Embedded value constantly increased

Business structure realized balanced development

Business quality remained stable

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Results Highlights for 1H2020

Unit: RMB in millions

Gross written premiums

FYP from long-term

Total assets

insurance business

96,879

+30.9%

29,862

+155.0%

939,351

+6.9%

Embedded value

13-month

Surrender rate

persistency ratio

224,757 +9.6%

91.0% +0.9pt

0.7% -0.3pt

Volume Growth

Stable Quality

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Future Prospects

The Company will push forward the development strategy

of "one body, two

wings, and technology

empowerment" to

promote high-quality

development.

Accelerate product

innovation &

Promote industrial

synergy

Strengthen

application of innovation & Promote technology empowerment

Control

investment risks

  • Seize
    investment

opportunities

Enhance compliance

management & Consolidate risk prevention and control

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Social Responsibility

Sanitation workers

project

  • 102 cities
  • Over 750,000 sanitation workers
  • Sum assured over RMB186.6 billion

Fighting COVID-19

  • Insurance donation to 200,000 medicals in Wuhan
  • Sum assured RMB60 billion
  • Donation worth RMB7.6 million

Targeted poverty

alleviation

  • 11 provinces
  • Over 50,000 poor people
  • Sum assured over RMB5 billion

Note: Data used are as at Jul. 31, 2020.

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INSURANCE

BUSINESS

OVERVIEW INSURANCE

FINANCIALS &

EMBEDDED

BUSINESS

INVESTMENT

VALUE

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Gross Written Premiums & Breakdown

Unit: RMB in millions

30.9%

96,879

73,994

29,862

155.0%

11,712

11.3%

4,322

3,883

7.4%

58,39962,695

1H20191H2020

15.8%

5.2%

78.9%

1H2019

30.8%

4.5%64.7%

1H2020

FYP from long-term

Premiums from short-

Renewal premiums

insurance business

term insurance business

Note: Numbers may not be additive due to rounding.

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Product Structure

FYP from long-terminsurance business

4,736.3% -15.2% 63.6%

16,395

6,522

7,936

5,531

4,851

339

Participating

Health

Traditional

insurance

insurance

insurance

1H2019

1H2020

Unit: RMB in millions

Gross Written Premiums

55.9% 14.4% 23.5%

40,054

32,021

25,684

27,980

23,581

19,089

Participating Health Traditional

insurance insurance insurance

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GWP Breakdown by Channels

10.5%

66,258

59,986

133.8%

29,143

-4.1%

12,467

1,541 1,478

Individual insurance

Bancassurance Group insurance

1H2019

1H2020

Unit: RMB in millions

2.1%

16.8%

81.1%

1H2019

1.5%

30.1%

68.4%

1H2020

Individual

Bancassurance

Group

insurance

insurance

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Individual Insurance - Premiums

Unit: RMB in millions

FYP from long-term

FYRP from long-term

Renewal premiums

Premiums from short-

insurance business

insurance business

term insurance business

14.0%

8.3%

9.2%

53,099

22.0%

10,329

48,609

9,058

9,800

9,047

2,319 2,830

1H20191H2020

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Individual Insurance - Sales Force

Total agents

526,000

36.5%

Monthly average

135,000

-3.5%

qualified agents

Monthly average

26.4%

-12.4pts

qualified rate

Notes:

  1. Monthly average number of qualified agents = (Σnumber of qualified agents in a month)/the number of months in the reporting period, where monthly number of qualified agents refers to the number of agents who have issued one insurance policy or more (including card-typeshort-term accident insurance policy) which are not cancelled by policy holders in a month and whose first year commission in the month is equal to or greater than RMB800.
  2. Monthly average qualified rate = monthly average number of qualified agents/monthly average number of agents*100%. Monthly average number of agents={Σ [(number of agents at start of the month + number of agents at end of the month)/2]}/the number of months in the reporting period.

Strengthen sales team and agent headcounts hit a record high

Greater challenges to

marketing

and active agent

headcounts reduced

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Bancassurance - Premiums

Unit: RMB in millions

FYP from long-term

FYRP from long-term

insurance business

insurance business

635.3%

38.0%

19,507

3,659

2,651

2,653

1H2019

Renewal premiums

Premiums from short-

term insurance business

-2.0%

9,786 9,592

57.1%

28 44

1H2020

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Business Quality

Persistency ratio of individual

life insurance business

91.0%

90.1%

13-month

86.5%

25-month

84.6%

1H20191H2020

Surrender rate

-0.3pt

1.0%

0.7%

1H2019 1H2020

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FINANCIALS &

INVESTMENT

OVERVIEW INSURANCE

FINANCIALS &

EMBEDDED

BUSINESS

INVESTMENT

VALUE

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Key Financial Indicators

Unit: RMB in millions

Revenues

ExpensesProfit

1H2020 1H2019 Change

Total

Revenues 116,076 89,092 30.3%

Net written

premiums and

95,425

72,767 31.1%

policy fees

Investment

20,751

16,684 24.4%

income

1H2020 1H2019 Change

Insurance

benefits

89,793

63,425

41.6%

and claims

Commission

and brokerage

9,617

8,943

7.5%

expenses

Administrative

5,320

5,512

-3.5%

expenses

Net profit attributable to shareholders of the

Company-22.1%

8,218

10,545

Earnings per share

-22.2%

(RMB yuan)

2.63

3.38

Weighted average ROE

attributable to shareholders -5.46pts of the Company%

9.13%

14.59%

1H2020

1H2019

Note: Above figures are IFRS based.

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Investment Performance

Investment assets

Annualized total

investment yield

7.3%

0.4 pt

900,317

5.1%

839,447

4.7%

31 Dec. 2019

30 Jun. 2020

1H2019

1H2020

Unit: RMB in millions

Annualized net investment yield

-0.4 pt

5.0%

4.6%

1H20191H2020

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Investment Portfolio

Categories

As at 30 Jun. 2020

As at Dec. 31 2019

Change

(Proportion)

(Proportion)

(pt)

Term deposits

10.6%

7.6%

3.0

Debt financial assets

61.6%

65.6%

-4.0

Bonds

42.7%

42.7%

-

Trust products

10.5%

9.2%

1.3

Debt plans

4.3%

4.6%

-0.3

Asset funding plans

-

1.2%

-1.2

Others

4.1%

7.9%

-3.8

Equity financial assets

20.5%

18.7%

1.8

Funds

5.2%

5.5%

-0.3

Stocks

7.4%

6.6%

0.8

Others

7.9%

6.6%

1.3

Investments in

0.5%

0.6%

associates and joint

-0.1

ventures

Cash and cash

1.3%

1.4%

-0.1

equivalents

Other investment

5.5%

6.1%

-0.6

assets

1.3% 5.5%

0.5%

10.6%

20.5%

61.6%

Term deposits

Debt financial assets

Equity financial assets

Investments in associates and joint ventures

Cash and cash equivalents Other investment assets

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Non-standard Investment Portfolio

Categories

Non-standard debt investments

Trust product

Debt plan

Project asset support plan

Wealth management product Perpetual bond

Asset management plan

Non-standard equity investments

Asset management plan Private equity

Unlisted equity

Equity investment plan

- Wealth management product

Derivative financial asset

Total

As at 30 Jun.

Proportion

Proportion

2020

Change (pt)

170,159

71.1%

-7.0

8.2

94,501

39.5%

39,065

16.3%

0.5

-4.1

-

-

31,548

13.2%

-11.7

5,000

2.1%

0.1

45

-

-

69,122

28.9%

7.0

39,044

16.3%

7.3

8,806

3.7%

0.8

16,570

6.9%

-0.6

4,700

2.0%

0.1

2

-

-

-

-

-0.6

239,281

100.0%

-

Unit: RMB in millions

28.9%

71.1%

Non-standard debt investments

Non-standard equity investments

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Solvency

Core solvency margin

ratio

-11.85 pts

283.64%

271.79%

31 Dec. 2019

Unit: RMB in millions

Comprehensive solvency

Capital

margin ratio

-1.86 pts

30/6/2020 31/12/2019 Change

283.64%

281.78%

Core

272,078

261,164

10,914

capital

Actual

282,078

261,164

20,914

capital

Minimum

100,107

92,077

8,030

capital

30 Jun. 2020

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EMBEDDED VALUE

OVERVIEW INSURANCE

FINANCIALS &

EMBEDDED

BUSINESS

INVESTMENT

VALUE

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Embedded Value - Composition Analysis

Unit: RMB in millions

9.6% 224,757

205,043

Value of In-force Business

82,119

11.9% 91,917

8.1%

Adjusted Net

Worth

Note:

  1. The risk discount rate used was 11.0% as at 30 June 2020. The risk discount rate used was 11.5% as at 31 December 2019.
  2. Numbers may not be additive due to rounding.

122,924132,841

31 Dec. 2019

30 Jun. 2020

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Embedded Value-Movement Analysis

Unit: RMB in millions

Movement analysis from Dec. 31, 2019 to Jun. 30, 2020

5,221

8,832

3,107

2,588

3,954

311

100

224,757

205,043

-

-

(4,399)

EV at the

Impact of

Expected

Operating

Economic

Operating

Economic

Change of

Capital

Others

Value Change

EV at

beginning

Value of

Return

Experience

Experience

Assumption

Assumption

Risk

Injection/

Other Than

the end

of period

New Business

Variances

Variances

Changes

Changes

Discount

Shareholder

Life Insurance

of period

Rate

Dividend

Business

Note: Numbers may not be additive due to rounding.

Payment

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Value of New Business

Unit: RMB in millions

-11.4%

38.0%

5,890

5,22137.9%

1H2019

1H2020

1H2019

Notes:

1. The risk discount rate used was 11.0% in 1H2020. The risk discount rate used was 11.5% in 1H2019.

VNB Margin

27.0% (FYP)

VNB Margin (APE)

15.3%

1H2020

  1. FYP= 100% * first year regular premiums+100% * first year single premiums +100% * premiums from short-term insurance business
  2. APE= 100% * first year regular premiums+10% * first year single premiums +100% * premiums from short-term insurance business
  3. Numbers may not be additive due to rounding.

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