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November 19, 2009

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Mr. Jeffrey Riedler, Assistant Director

Mr. John L. Krug, Senior Counsel

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Mr. Daniel Greenspan, Special Counsel

Division of Corporation Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

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  Re: CNinsure Inc.

Registration Statement on Form F-3 Filed November 5, 2009

File No. 333-162895

Dear Mr. Riedler and Mr. Krug,

On behalf of our client, CNinsure Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), we are filing the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 (“Amendment No. 1”). For your ease of reference, we will hand-deliver to you 3 copies of Amendment No. 1 marked to show changes to the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on November 5, 2009.

Set forth below is the Company’s response to the comment contained in the letter dated November 12, 2009 from the Staff. For your ease of reference, the Staff’s comment is reproduced below.

Selling Shareholders, page 47

 

1. Please amend your filing to specifically describe the transaction(s) in which the shares (ADS’s) registered for resale were issued to the selling shareholders.

In response to the Staff’s comments, the Company has amended the referenced disclosure under the caption “Selling Shareholders” on page 47 of Amendment No. 1.

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Joseph A. Bevash

Simon H. Berry

Kenneth D. C. Chan

 

Stanley Chow

Michael S. L. Liu

Jane M. S. Ng

 

John A. Otoshi

Chun Fai Woo

Cheung Ying Yeung

 

Registered Foreign Lawyers:

Patrick J. Flanagan (New York)

Eugene Y. Lee (New York)

 

David J. Miles (England and Wales)

David Zhang (New York)


If you have any additional questions or comments regarding Amendment No. 1, please contact me at (852) 2912-2503 (work) or (852) 9124-8324 (mobile), Eugene Y. Lee (852) 2912-2515 (work) or (852) 9192-7430 (mobile) or Fan Zhang at (852) 2912-2506 (work) or (852) 9336-7411 (mobile).

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ David T. Zhang

David T. Zhang

of LATHAM & WATKINS

Enclosures

 

cc: Yinan Hu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Peng Ge, Chief Financial Officer

Eugene Y. Lee, Esq., Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong

Fan Zhang, Esq., Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong