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July 26, 2023
Evan Xu
Chief Financial Officer
Genetron Holdings Ltd
1-2/F, Building 11, Zone 1
No. 8 Life Science Parkway
Changping District, Beijing, 102206
People’s Republic of China
Re:Genetron Holdings Ltd
Form 20-F for the Year Ended December 31, 2022
Filed May 12, 2023
File No. 001-39328
Dear Evan Xu:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the submission and/or disclosures as
required by Item 16I of Form 20-F and have the following comments. In some of our comments,
we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond.
            After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 20-F for the Year Ended December 31, 2022
Item 16I. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections, page 186
1.We note your statement that you reviewed your register of members and public filings
made by your shareholders, including, among others, the Schedule 13G/A filed by Sizhen
Wang and FHP Holdings Limited on February 14, 2023, by Hai Yan on February 14,
2022, by Tianjin Genetron Jun’an Business Management Partnership (Limited
Partnership) on February 14, 2022, and the Schedule 13G filed by CICC Group on March
14, 2022 in connection with your required submission under paragraph (a).  Please
supplementally describe any additional materials that were reviewed and tell us whether
you relied upon any legal opinions or third party certifications such as affidavits as the
basis for your submission.  In your response, please provide a similarly detailed discussion
of the materials reviewed and legal opinions or third party certifications relied upon in
connection with the required disclosures under paragraphs (b)(2) and (3).

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2.In order to clarify the scope of your review, please supplementally describe the steps you
have taken to confirm that none of the members of your board or the boards of your
consolidated foreign operating entities are officials of the Chinese Communist Party.  For
instance, please tell us how the board members’ current or prior memberships on, or
affiliations with, committees of the Chinese Communist Party factored into your
determination.  In addition, please tell us whether you have relied upon third party
certifications such as affidavits as the basis for your disclosure.
3.We note that your disclosures pursuant to Items 16I(b)(2), (b)(3) and (b)(5) are provided
for “Genetron Holdings Limited or the VIEs.”  We also note that the list of significant
subsidiaries and the VIEs in Exhibit 8.1 appears to indicate that you have subsidiaries in
the PRC and Hong Kong that are not included in your VIEs.  Please note that Item 16I(b)
requires that you provide disclosures for yourself and your consolidated foreign operating
entities, including variable interest entities or similar structures.
•With respect to (b)(2), please supplementally clarify the jurisdictions in which your
consolidated foreign operating entities are organized or incorporated and provide the
percentage of your shares or the shares of your consolidated operating entities owned
by governmental entities in each foreign jurisdiction in which you have consolidated
operating entities in your supplemental response.
•With respect to (b)(3) and (b)(5), please provide the required information for you and
all of your consolidated foreign operating entities in your supplemental response.
4.With respect to your disclosure pursuant to Item 16I(b)(5), we note that you have included
language that such disclosure is “to our best knowledge.”  Please supplementally confirm
without qualification, if true, that your articles and the articles of your consolidated
foreign operating entities do not contain wording from any charter of the Chinese
Communist Party.
            We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
            Please contact Jimmy McNamara at 202-551-7349 or Jennifer Thompson at 202-551-
3737 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Disclosure Review Program
cc:       Xuelin Wang