Specimen Unit Certificate




 Exhibit 4.1 
  

SPECIMEN UNIT CERTIFICATE 
  

			
	 NUMBER
	 	UNITS

 U-                     
  
 See Reverse for 
 certain definitions 
  
 SHANGHAI CENTURY ACQUISITION
CORPORATION 
  
 CUSIP
                     
  
 UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE ORDINARY SHARE AND ONE WARRANT 
 EACH TO PURCHASE ONE ORDINARY SHARE 
  
 THIS CERTIFIES THAT
                             is the owner of
                     Units. 
  
 Each Unit (“Unit”) consists of one (1) ordinary share, par value $0.0005 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), of Shanghai Century Acquisition
Corporation, a Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), and one warrant (the “Warrants”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) Ordinary Share for $6.00 per share (subject to adjustment). Each Warrant will
become exercisable on the later of the Company’s completion of a business combination or                     , 200   and
will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on                     , 200  , or earlier upon redemption
(the “Expiration Date”). The Ordinary Shares and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to
                    , 2006, subject to earlier separation in the discretion of I-Bankers Securities Incorporated and
                    . The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant Agreement, dated as of
                    , 200  , between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant Agent,
and are subject to the terms and provisions contained therein, all of which terms and provisions the holder of this certificate consents to by acceptance hereof. Copies of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at
                    , and are available to any Warrant holder on written request and without cost. 
  
 This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and
Registrar of the Company. 
  
 Witness the facsimile seal of the
Company and the facsimile signature of its duly authorized officers. 
  
 By 
  
  








 SHANGHAI CENTURY ACQUISITION CORPORATION 
 CORPORATE 
 SEAL 
 2006 
  
 CAYMAN ISLANDS 
  

					
	  

	  	 	 	  


	 Chairman of the Board and
	  	 	 	Co-Chief Executive Officer
	 Co-Chief Executive Officer
	  	 	 	 

  
 SHANGHAI CENTURY
ACQUISITION CORPORATION 
  
 The Company will furnish without
charge to each shareholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of share or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications,
limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

			
	 TEN COM - as tenants in common

	
	 TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

	
	 JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

	
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT-             Custodian
             under Uniform Gifts to

	           (Cust)
                  (Minor)
                        Minors Act
            

	           (state)


  
 Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
  
 For value received,                      hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 
  
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER 
 IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 
                                       
           
  
                                       
           









	
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	 (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP
 CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)


  
 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
  
 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
  
 ___________________________________________________________________ Units represented by the
within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _______________________________________________________________________ Attorney to transfer the said Units on the books of the within named Company will full power of substitution
in the premises. 
  
 Dated
                     
  
 NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon he face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatever. 
  
 Signature(s) Guaranteed: 
  
  

 THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH
MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.) 
  
 KEEP THIS CERTIFICATE IN A SAFE PLACE. IF IT IS LOST, STOLEN, MUTILATED OR DESTROYED, THE COMPANY WILL REQUIRE A BOND OF INDEMNITY AS A CONDITION TO THE ISSUANCE OF A REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.