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Management Comment 

Dr. Ge Li, Chairman and CEO of WuXi AppTec, said, "Revenue and profit both resumed double-digit growth during the first quarter, and our backlog for Continuing Operations sustained rapid growth, as we maintained our laser focus on leveraging WuXi AppTec's unique CRDMO platform to expand delivery of enabling services across research, development and manufacturing."

"The Company currently maintains its full-year guidance set at the beginning of the year. We expect revenue from Continuing Operations to grow 10-15% in 2025, and our adjusted non-IFRS net profit margin will further improve."

"WuXi AppTec is dedicated to 'doing the right thing and doing it right', as our services drive long-term growth, improve the health of those in need and realize our vision that 'every drug can be made and every disease can be treated'."

Business Performance by Segments

• WuXi Chemistry: CRDMO Business Model Drives Continuous Growth; Q1 2025 Revenue Up 32.9% YoY, with TIDES Revenue Up 187.6% YoY

  • Q1 revenue of WuXi Chemistry reached RMB7.39 billion, up 32.9% year-over-year. With continued optimization of production process and improvement in capacity efficiency driven by the growth of late-stage clinical and commercial projects, Q1 adjusted non-IFRS gross profit margin steadily improved 4.2pts year-over-year to 47.5%.

  • Small molecule drug discovery service ("R") continues to generate downstream opportunities. In the past 12 months, we successfully synthesized and delivered more than 460,000 new compounds to customers, which resulted in 6% year-over-year growth. Through our "follow-the-customer" and "follow-the-molecule" strategies, we established trusted partnerships with our customers globally, supporting the sustainable growth of our CRDMO business. In the first quarter, 75 molecules were converted from R to D.

  • Small molecule D&M service remains strong.
    i. The small molecule CDMO pipeline continued to expand. Q1 revenue of small molecule D&M services was up 13.8% year-over-year to RMB3.85 billion. In the first quarter of 2025, 203 new molecules were added to the small molecule D&M pipeline. As of March 31, 2025, our small molecule D&M pipeline reached 3,393 molecules, including 75 commercial projects, 82 in phase III, 368 in phase II and 2,868 in phase I and pre-clinical stages, with an increase of 5 projects in the commercial and phase III stages during the first quarter of 2025.
    ii. We continued to build small molecule capacities. In March 2025, both the Changzhou and Taixing API manufacturing sites successfully passed FDA inspections with no single observation. The total reactor volume of small molecule APIs is expected to reach over 4,000kL by the end of 2025.

  • TIDES business (oligo and peptides) sustains rapid growth.
    i. With the ramp-up of new capacities released sequentially each quarter last year, Q1 TIDES revenue grew 187.6% year-over-year to RMB2.24 billion. As of the end of March 2025, TIDES backlog was up 105.5% year-over-year.
    ii. TIDES D&M customers grew 14% year-over-year, while the number of TIDES molecules grew 25% year-over-year.
    iii. We continued to build peptide capacities in Taixing. Total reactor volume of Solid Phase Peptide Synthesizers is expected to increase to over 100,000L by the end of 2025.

• WuXi Testing^[3]: Drug Safety Evaluation Service & Site Management Organization (SMO) Maintain Leading Positions

  • WuXi Testing reached RMB1.29 billion during Q1. Adjusted non-IFRS gross profit margin was 23.4%. Q1 revenue of lab testing services declined 4.9% year-over-year to RMB0.88 billion, due to market impact as pricing gradually reflected in revenue along with backlog conversion, accompanied by a decline in Q1 adjusted non-IFRS GPM. Of which, drug safety evaluation services revenue was down 7.8% year-over-year, while maintaining an industry-leading position in the Asia-Pacific region.

  • New modality business continued to develop, while the Company maintained its leading position in areas including nucleic acids, conjugates, mRNA, multispecific antibodies and peptides.

  • The Company is committed to actively enabling customers' global licensing. WuXi AppTec has supported approximately 40% of successful out-licensed deals from Chinese biotech companies since 2022.

  • The Suzhou facility has successfully passed 4 consecutive FDA on-site inspections.

  • Q1 revenue for clinical CRO & SMO declined 2.2% year-over-year to RMB0.41 billion due to market pricing impact. Of which, SMO revenue grew 5.5% year-over-year and maintained the industry leading position in China. During the quarter, our clinical CRO business supported customers to obtain 10 IND approvals.

  • The SMO business continued steady growth, and supported 28 new drug approvals for customers in the first quarter. Over the past decade, SMO has supported 283 new drug approvals in total, maintaining significant advantages in multiple areas (endocrinology, dermatology, lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, etc.).

• WuXi Biology: Continues to Generate Downstream Opportunities; In Vitro & In Vivo Business Synergies and New Modality Business Drive Growth

  • WuXi Biology follows the science and continuously strengthens drug discovery capabilities in emerging areas. It efficiently generates downstream opportunities for CRDMO model by continuously contributing more than 20% of the Company's new customers.

  • WuXi Biology's Q1 revenue rose 8.2% year-over-year to RMB0.61 billion. Due to market pricing impact, Q1 adjusted non-IFRS gross profit margin was down 2.2pts to 36.3%.

  • The Company continuously leverage synergies between in vitro and in vivo platforms, and efficiently supports customer demand for one-stop drug discovery service platform. Revenue of the in vitro integrated screening platform grew 28.9% year-over-year. Revenue of the in vivo pharmacology platform grew 9.4% year-over-year, driven by accelerated advancements in focused disease areas. The constantly improved competitive edge in non-oncology business has laid a solid foundation for sustained growth throughout the year.

  • New modality drug discovery services continue to perform well, contributing more than 30% of WuXi Biology's total revenue.

This release provides a summary of the results and does not intend to provide a complete statement relating to the Company, its securities, or any relevant matters herein that a recipient may need in order to evaluate the Company. For additional information, please refer to the WuXi AppTec 2025 First Quarterly Results Presentation and 2025 First Quarterly Report disclosed on the Company's official website, as well as the Company's disclosure documents and information on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited website. Investors are advised to exercise caution and be aware of the investment risks in trading Company shares.

Net profit attributable to the owners of the Company is prepared in accordance with China Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises (CAS), in currency of RMB. Besides, all other financial information disclosed in this press release is prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards Accounting Standards ("IFRSs"), in currency of RMB.

The 2025 First Quarterly Report of the Company has not been audited.

About WuXi AppTec

As a global company with operations across Asia, Europe, and North America, WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable the global pharmaceutical and life sciences industry to advance discoveries and deliver groundbreaking treatments to patients. Through its unique business models, WuXi AppTec's integrated, end-to-end services include chemistry drug CRDMO (Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization), biology discovery, preclinical testing and clinical research services, helping customers improve the productivity of advancing healthcare products through cost-effective and efficient solutions. WuXi AppTec received an AA ESG rating from MSCI for the fourth consecutive year in 2024 and its open-access platform is enabling ~6,000 customers from over 30 countries to improve the health of those in need – and to realize the vision that "every drug can be made and every disease can be treated." Please visit: http://www.wuxiapptec.com

Forward-Looking Statements

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Continuing Operations and Discontinued Operations

In accordance with the IFRSs, the Company has classified the operations for which equity sale agreements were signed during the Reporting Period or the comparison year as discontinued operations ("Discontinued Operations"). The remaining operations of the Company will continue to be reported as continuing operations ("Continuing Operations").

Use of Non-IFRS and Adjusted Non-IFRS Financial Measures

We provide non-IFRS gross profit and non-IFRS net profit attributable to the owners of the Company, which exclude share-based compensation expenses, issuance expenses of convertible bonds, foreign exchange related gains or losses, amortization of acquired intangible assets from merger and acquisition, gains or losses from impairment and disposal of non-financial assets, and gains or losses from divestiture and restructuring initiatives, etc. We also provide adjusted non-IFRS net profit attributable to the owners of the Company and earnings per share, which further exclude realized and unrealized gains or losses from our venture capital investments and joint ventures. Neither of the above is required by, or presented in accordance with IFRSs.

We believe that the adjusted financial measures used in this presentation are useful for understanding and assessing our core business performance and operating trends, and we believe that management and investors may benefit from referring to these adjusted financial measures in assessing our financial performance by eliminating the impact of certain unusual, non-recurring, non-cash and non-operating items that we do not consider indicative of the performance of our core business. Such non-IFRS financial measures, the management of the Company believes, is widely accepted and adopted in the industry the Company is operating in. However, the presentation of these adjusted non-IFRS financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with IFRSs. You should not view adjusted results on a stand-alone basis or as a substitute for results under IFRSs, or as being comparable to results reported or forecasted by other companies.

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