Exhibit 23.6

9 December 2003

The Directors
China Life Insurance Company Limited
16 Chaowai Avenue
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100020
China

Dear Sirs

TILLINGHAST - TOWERS PERRIN ACTUARIAL CONSULTANTS' REPORT

Tillinghast - Towers Perrin consents to:

a) the inclusion of our Actuarial Consultants' Report dated 8 December 2003
within the Prospectus included in the Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed
by China Life Insurance Company Limited with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission on 9 December 2003 ("Prospectus"), in the form and context
in which it is included;

b) being named in the Prospectus in connection with our Actuarial Consultants'
Report in the form and context in which we are named.

Tillinghast - Towers Perrin does not authorise or cause the issue of the
Prospectus and does not make or purport to make any statement in that Prospectus
other than its report.

Yours faithfully
for Tillinghast - Towers Perrin


/s/ Mark Saunders

Mark Saunders
Principal & Managing Director, Asia