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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-25-045435
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250507

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Origin Agritech LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001321851
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION - CROPS [0100]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	08 Industrial Applications and Services
		EIN:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			D6
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		NO. 21 SHENG MING YUAN ROAD
		CITY:			CHANGPING DISTRICT BEIJING
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			102206
		BUSINESS PHONE:		858-847-9000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		NO. 21 SHENG MING YUAN ROAD
		CITY:			CHANGPING DISTRICT BEIJING
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			102206
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">May 7, 2025</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Division of Corporation Finance &ndash; Office of</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.25in">Industrial Applications and Services</P>

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  <TD STYLE="width: 92%"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Ms.&nbsp;Jeanne Baker</FONT></TD></TR>
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  <TD>Mr.&nbsp;Terence O&rsquo;Brien</TD></TR>
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  <TD>Mr.&nbsp;Robert Augustin</TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Origin Agritech Limited</P>
    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Comment Letter dated May&nbsp;6, 2025</P>
    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Form&nbsp;20-F, Amendment No.&nbsp;1, Filed April&nbsp;11, 2025</P>
    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">File No.&nbsp;000-51576</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Augustin and Others:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Reference is made to the letter of the staff (the
 &ldquo;Staff&rdquo;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;), dated May&nbsp;6, 2025 (&ldquo;Comment
Letter&rdquo;), commenting on the filing of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Annual Report on Form&nbsp;20-F (&ldquo;Form&nbsp;20-F&rdquo;)
of Origin Agritech Limited (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;), which was filed on April&nbsp;11, 2025.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">I am responding on behalf of the Company, as its
United States counsel, to the Comment Letter. The response format sets forth the Staff comment followed by the Company response thereto.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Annual Report on Form&nbsp;20-F</U></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Risk Factors</U></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Risks relating to doing business in China, page&nbsp;22</U></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">1.</FONT></TD><TD>We note your added disclosure regarding the enforceability of civil liabilities in response to previous comment 7. In your future
filings, please also disclose the risks discussed in the section captioned &ldquo;Enforceability of Civil Liabilities&rdquo; in a separate
risk factor, which should contain disclosure with the separate enforceability section.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><I>RESPONSE</I></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Origin Agritech Limited (&ldquo;Company&rdquo;)
undertakes to add a risk factor to future filings, which filing has a risk factor section, reflecting the risk factors set forth in the
 &ldquo;Enforceability of Civil Liabilities&rdquo; section of the Annual Report. Currently, the plan is to put the additional risk factor
in the section &ldquo;Risks relating to doing business in China.&rdquo; Below is a sample of the risk factor that the Company will include
in its filings:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>We are incorporated under the laws of the British
Virgin Islands, which can limit the ability of a shareholder to enforce their rights against the Company.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The British Virgin Islands has an underdeveloped
body of securities laws and what laws do exist provide less protection to investors compared to the securities laws of the United States.
Additionally, it is uncertain that shareholders may initiate a derivative action in the United States against a British Virgin Islands
company and its directors and officers. It may also be difficult for a shareholder to enforce in United States courts judgments obtained
in United States courts based on the civil liability provisions of the United States federal securities laws against the Company and its
officers and directors. There is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the British Virgin Islands would recognize or enforce judgments
of United States courts against the Company or its officers and directors predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities
laws of the United States or any state. There is no statutory recognition in the British Virgin Islands of judgments obtained in the United
States, although the courts of the British Virgin Islands will generally recognize and enforce a non-penal judgment of a foreign court
of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits. It is uncertain whether British Virgin Islands courts would be competent to hear
original actions brought in the British Virgin Islands against us or those persons predicated upon the securities laws of the United States
or any state.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Substantially all of the Company assets are located in China. A majority
of our directors and officers are nationals or residents of jurisdictions other than the United States and most of their assets are located
outside the United States. These persons include: Mr.&nbsp;Gengchen Han, Mr.&nbsp;Shaojiang Chen, Mr.&nbsp;Min Lin, Mr.&nbsp;Weibin Yan
and Mr.&nbsp;Chi Kin Cheng. As a result, it may be difficult for a shareholder to effect service of process within the United States upon
these non-US individuals, or to bring an action against the Company or these individuals in the United States, or to enforce against the
Company or these persons any judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions
of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">Also, the Company has been advised that foreign
judgments do not have direct effect in the BVI. It may be, however, possible to enforce a foreign judgment by action at common law or,
in the case of judgments from certain jurisdictions, by registration under the Foreign Judgments Reciprocal Enforcement Ordinance or the
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act in the BVI. It should be noted that not every foreign judgment is capable of enforcement. Some
may lend themselves only to recognition by the BVI courts. The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act (As Revised) and the Foreign Judgments
(Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance (As Revised) does not extend to Israel or the United States of America and thus enforcement by common
law would have to be sought.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in; background-color: white">(a)&nbsp;Under common
law, any final and conclusive money judgment for a definite sum obtained against the debtor in the courts of a foreign jurisdiction is
treated by the BVI courts as a cause of action for debt itself so that no retrial of the issues is necessary provided that in respect
of the foreign judgment certain criteria are met.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">(b)&nbsp;A party to a judicial proceeding in a
foreign court outside the BVI who has in its favor a non-money judgment, such as a declaratory judgment or an injunction, may, in certain
circumstances, be able to enforce that judgment in the courts of the BVI. This would involve that party bringing fresh proceedings in
the BVI in which the equitable doctrine of estoppel could be relied upon to obtain summary judgment from the BVI court on the basis that
it would be an abuse of process for the claim to be re-litigated. In order to avail itself of the equitable doctrine of estoppel, certain
requirements must be met including: (a)&#8239;the non-money foreign judgment must be based on a cause of action recognized under the law
of the BVI; (b)&#8239;the foreign judicial proceeding must have identical parties and identical issues; (c)&#8239;the foreign judgment
must be rendered by a court with judicial authority; (d)&#8239;the judgment must be final and conclusive; and (e)&#8239;the judgment debtor
must either have been present in the foreign country at the time the foreign proceedings were commenced, or have submitted to the jurisdiction
of the foreign court by voluntarily appearing in the foreign proceedings, or prior to the commencement of those proceedings, agreed to
submit to the jurisdiction of the foreign court in respect of the subject matter of the proceedings.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">*****</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">The Company understands that its management persons
are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action
by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">If you have any questions about the foregoing,
please do not hesitate to contact Andrew D. Hudders of this firm at 212-907-7349 or ahudders@golenbock.com.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Very truly yours,</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/S/ Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell&nbsp;&amp; Peskoe
    LLP</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell&nbsp;&amp; Peskoe
    LLP</FONT></TD></TR>
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  <TD STYLE="width: 95%"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Mr.&nbsp;Chi Kin (Patrick) Cheng,</FONT></TD></TR>
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  <TD>Chief Financial Officer</TD></TR>
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