Synutra Added to Russell 3000 and Russell 2000 Indexes

QINGDAO, PRC and ROCKVILLE, Md., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synutra International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYUT; "Synutra"), one of China's leading manufacturers of dairy-based nutritional products for infants, children and adults, today announced it has been added to the Russell 3000(R) and Russell 2000(R) Indexes after the Russell Investment Group reconstituted its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on June 22, 2007.

Russell Indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for both index funds and as benchmarks for passive and active investment strategies.

"We are proud to be included in the Russell indexes, reflecting our continued positive momentum and strategic and operational progress," commented Synutra's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Liang Zhang. "Russell is an industry leader for stock indexes, and we expect our inclusion will generate continued interest in our stock at both an institutional and individual investor level."

The annual reconstitution of the Russell 3000 captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization. The largest 1,000 companies in this ranking comprise the Russell 1000 and the next 2,000 companies become the Russell 2000. The next reconstitution of the Russell indexes will take place in June 2008.

About Synutra International, Inc.

Synutra operates eight subsidiaries developing, producing, distributing and selling dairy-based nutritional products across the People's Republic of China. It offers its products for infants, children, adults and pregnant women and nursing mothers under the brand series of "Super," "U-Smart" and "U- Strong." The Group's extensive sales network covers 24 provinces, 264 cities and more than 1320 counties throughout China. For more information, please contact Weiguo Zhang of Synutra, Inc. (301 840 3888, wzhang@synutra.com), Brian Rafferty of Taylor Rafferty (212 889 4350, synutra@taylor-rafferty.com) or visit: http://www.synutra.com .

About Russell Investment Group

Russell Investment Group aims to improve financial security for people by providing strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks, and a range of institutional-quality investment products. With more than $200 billion in assets under management, Russell serves individual, institutional and advisor client in more than 40 countries. Russell provides access to some of the world's best money managers. It helps investors put this access to work in corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and in the life saving of individual investors. Russell's indexes are unmanaged and cannot be investing in directly. For more information on Russell indexes, go to www.russell.com.

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