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Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited Announces Dividend

8 April 1999

Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited Announces Semi-annual Cash Dividend

    NEW YORK, April 8 -- Brilliance China Automotive Holdings
Limited (the "Company") today announced that the Company adopted a
resolution at a meeting of its board of directors on March 16, 1999 to pay a
semi-annual cash dividend of US$0.04 per share of the Company's common stock.
The dividend is payable on April 30, 1999 to holders of record on
April 15, 1999.
    The Company, incorporated in Bermuda, was established in 1992 to own a
51% interest in Shenyang JinBei Passenger Vehicle Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
("Shenyang Automotive), a Sino-foreign joint venture enterprise established in
1991.  Shenyang Automotive, located in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning
Province and the commercial center of Northeast China, is the leading
manufacturer and distributor of minibuses in the People's Republic of China.
In May 1998, the Company acquired an indirect interest in two component
suppliers: a 51% equity interest in Ningbo Yuming Machinery Industrial Co.,
Ltd., a wholly foreign-owned Chinese enterprise primarily engaged in the
production of automobile window molding and stripping; and a 50% equity
interest in Mianyang Xinchen Engine Co., Ltd., a Sino-foreign equity joint
venture manufacturer of gasoline engines for use in passenger vehicles and
light duty trucks.  The Company was the first with operations solely in China
to list directly on the New York Stock Exchange.