Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company Shareholders Vote to Approve Merger

Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company (NYSE: TCM), announced today that, at an extraordinary general meeting held today, the Company's shareholders voted in favor of the proposal to adopt the previously disclosed Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 29, 2010, as amended on February 21, 2011, among Tongjitang, Hanmax Investment Limited, Fosun Industrial Co., Limited, and Tonsun International Company Limited, a company owned by Hanmax and Fosun, pursuant to which Merger Sub will be merged with and into Tongjitang with Tongjitang being the surviving corporation.

Of the ordinary shares voted at the extraordinary general meeting, approximately 99.68% were voted in favor of the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement.