Golden China's Beyinhar Project Scoping Study Indicates Production Costs of US$280/oz

Company Commences Feasibility Study

Toronto, Ontario, April 12th, 2007 - Golden China Resources Corporation (GCX: TSX; ASX) today announced results of a preliminary assessment (scoping study) on the oxide resource at its Beyinhar gold project located in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. As a result of the positive outcome of the study, which indicates gold production costs of between $US260/oz and $US280/oz, the company has initiated a Feasibility Study (FS), which is expected to be completed by the end of 2007.

"We are extremely encouraged by the results of the scoping study, particularly with the fact that Beyinhar has the potential to produce gold at a cash cost of US$280 per ounce or less, which is consistent with other mines in the area." said Greg Starr, President and Chief Executive Officer of Golden China. "We look forward to the continuing development of the Beyinhar Mine with the completion of the Feasibility Study later this year. Golden China is targeting to develop its mining production to 100,000 ounces per annum by 2009 through Beyinhar alone, which alongside anticipated results from our other projects, will cement the company's foothold as one of the major gold producers in China."
 
The Scoping Study evaluated 9 potential mining and processing scenarios comprising various permutations on Dump Leaching, Heap Leaching and CIL, with an estimated accuracy of +/-30%. The outcome of the Study has indicated Heap Leaching as the best process and p roposes two stages of project development. The first stage, is based on Beyinhar's current resource, envisages a production rate of 2.5 million tonnes per annum (tpa), subsequently building to a production rate of 5 million tpa, with gold production of 100,000 ounces per annum once the Beyinhar resource increases in size. 

The results of the study are as follows:

In light of the favourable results of the study, which indicate that the Beyinhar gold project could be developed as an open cut and heap leach operation, Golden China has begun the metallurgical and engineering components of a NI 43-101 compliant study on the oxide resource at Beyinhar. The proposed timetable for the study is as follows:

• Metallurgical testwork - Ongoing - SGS Lakefield Oretest Pty Ltd
• Updated 43-101 Resource - September 2007 - GeoSystems International, Inc
• Mine Design - October 2007 - Orelogy Pty Ltd
• Engineering Study - November 2007 - Kappes Cassiday Associates, Australia Pty Ltd
• Feasibility Study completion - December 2007 
• EIS - March 2008 - Australasian Pacific Environmental Consultants Pty Ltd

Subject to the completion of the Feasibility Study in December 2007, final engineering design and project approvals would then commence and proceed in tandem. Current scheduling indicates construction commencing in April 2008, with commissioning by the end of 2008.

Scoping Study

The metallurgical testwork for the Scoping Study was carried out by SGS Lakefield Oretest, (SGS) in Perth, on a 160kg composite drill core sample from the oxide zone at Beyinhar. The initial column leach  testwork was carried out on a 12.5 mm crushed composite oxide ore sample from Beyinhar.  This testwork achieved gold recoveries of between 82% and 85% over a 45 day period as indicated below:

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The inputs for the capital and operating costs for the process options of Dump Leach, Heap Leach and CIL was provided by KCAA in Perth. KCAA is the Australian subsidiary of Kappes Cassiday and Associates, of Reno, Nevada, one of the foremost gold heap leach specialists in the world. The mine operating costs and pit optimisations were provided by Orelogy Pty Ltd, a mine design and consulting group based in Perth. The mining operating costs were based on a contract mining scenario.

A complete version of the NI 43-101 compliant scoping study will be available on Golden China's website (www.goldenchina.ca) as well as on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) in coming weeks. 

2007 Drilling Programme Commences

At the current time, the resource at Beyinhar comprises an initial mineral resource within the largely oxide, near-surface zone of a measured and indicated resources of 475,000 contained ounces and an inferred resource of 130,000 ounces, at a 0.30g/t Au cut-off:

The 2007 drilling programme commenced on 22nd March 2007 and is scheduled to complete over 17,000 metres within the defined Beyinhar Central Zone, as well as an extended programme on the new Beyinhar South West exploration license. Additional deeper holes, between 120 metres and 150 metres deep, will be drilled to increase the resource within the recently discovered sulphide zone below the oxide resource.

An updated NI-43-101 mineral resource estimate is scheduled for completion in September 2007. This work will be carried out by Mario Rossi of GeoSystems International.

The objective of the 2007 drilling programme is to increase the Beyinhar resource from the current resource level (as indicated in the table above) to a target of over one million ounces in the Measured and Indicated categories by September 2007.  An updated NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate is scheduled for completion in September 2007.  This work will be carried out by Mario Rossi of GeoSystems International. 

Core from the new drilling programme, in combination with a bulk sample from the existing open-cut mine on the site, will be used to provide a bulk metallurgical sample for the DFS. This sample will be sent to Perth for metallurgical testwork with SGS. KCAA will then carry out the engineering and infrastructure aspects of the FS. Orelogy will utilize the updated September 2007 resource model to carry out the mine design and scheduling.

On-going Metallurgical Testwork on Sulphide ores

As announced in Golden China's press release of February 1, 2007, the company also encountered high-grade sulphide mineralization below the project's near-surface oxide gold deposit. Metallurgical samples from this deeper sulphide zone will be tested over the course of the next few months to determine its suitability for heap leach processing. These results should be available by July 2007.

About Beyinhar

Golden China's 95% owned Beyinhar gold project lies within the Inner Mongolia Fold Belt Region, a productive orogenic belt hosting several skarn, shear-hosted, orogenic/mesothermal veins and porphyry Cu-Au deposits. This Fold Belt region hosts the world-class Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold deposit (1.15 billion tonnes @ 1.27 % Cu and 0.48 g/t gold), and CSH 217 shear-hosted gold deposit (83 million tonnes @ 0.82 g/t gold).  Inner Mongolia is a province of the People's Republic of China, not Mongolia. 

The Beyinhar project is well supplied by existing infrastructure and services. The site is located 365km from Hohhot, the Provincial capital and has a bitumen road passing within 1km of the deposit. A new 110KVa power line has recently been constructed within 7km of the site and a potential water source lies some 30km to the NW. The town of Sonid Youqi, comprising some 16,000 persons, is located only 50km to the south west. The large city and airport at Xilinhot is only a 2 hour drive to the north east.

The Beyinhar gold property covers an exploration license of approximately 49.45 km2, with a 1.5 km2 mining lease inside this exploration permit.

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Qualified Person

Mr. Peter Secker, BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering, MAusIMM, is Golden China's Vice President of Exploration and Development and its qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.  Mr. Secker is overseeing the company's exploration work at Beyinhar and supervised the preparation of the information in this release.  

About Golden China Resources Corporation:

Golden China Resources Corporation is a significant participant and consolidator in the Chinese precious metal industry and one of the largest producers of gold in China. The company is using its extensive knowledge of the Chinese marketplace and best practices based on established international standards in building a diversified gold business focused on exploration and development, operations, and corporate development in the Chinese precious metal industry.  Golden China's shares are listed on the main boards of both the Toronto and Australian Stock Exchanges under the symbol GCX.

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Golden China Resources Corp.
Kristen (Boucher) Humphrey
Communications Manager
Tel: 416.366.8818 ext. 230 
khumphrey@goldenchina.ca
www.goldenchina.ca

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