SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM 6-K

                            REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER

                      Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
                       the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

                          For the month of August 2004

                         Commission File Number 1-31994

              SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
                 (Translation of Registrant's Name Into English)

                               18 Zhangjiang Road
                        Pudong New Area, Shanghai 201203
                           People's Republic of China
                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (the "Registrant") is
furnishing under the cover of Form 6-K:

Exhibit 99.1:  Press announcement, dated August 13, 2004, relating to the
               appointment of a new alternate director of the Registrant.



                                    SIGNATURE

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

                                       Semiconductor Manufacturing
                                       International Corporation

                                       By: /s/ Richard R. Chang
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Richard R. Chang
                                           Title: Chairman of the Board,
                                                  President and Chief Executive
                                                  Officer

Date: August 13, 2004



                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit        Description
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Exhibit 99.1:  Press announcement, dated August 13, 2004, relating to the
               appointment of a new alternate director of the Registrant.



                                                                    Exhibit 99.1

                        SMIC APPOINTS ALTERNATE DIRECTOR

The Company is pleased to announce that Mr. Fang Yao has been appointed as
Alternate Director to the Company's Non-Executive Director, Mr. Lai Xing Cai,
effective from 27 July 2004.

Mr. Yao, 35, is an Executive Director of Shanghai Industrial Holdings Limited, a
substantial shareholder of the Company. Mr. Yao is also a Director and General
Manager of SIIC Management (Shanghai) Limited; a Director of Shanghai S.I.
Capital Company Limited, Shanghai Industrial Development Company Limited,
Shanghai Hu-Ning Expressway (Shanghai Section) Company Limited, Shanghai
Information Investment Inc. and Shanghai Communication Technologies Center;
Chairman of Shanghai Optical Communications Development Corp.; and Vice Chairman
of Bright Diary and Food Company Limited. He graduated from Chinese University
of Hong Kong with a masters degree in Business Administration, and has over 10
years experience in money and capital markets.

Mr. Yao will serve as the Alternate Director to Mr. Lai Xing Cai, the
Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Yao's appointment is effective so
long as Mr. Cai remains to be a Director of the Company or his appointment has
been revoked by Mr. Cai. Mr. Cai is a Class III Director of the Company which
means that he will serve for an initial three-year term. After this period, Mr.
Cai will, together with other Class III Directors, be eligible for re-election
for a term of 3 years.

Save for the fact that Mr. Yao is an Executive Director of Shanghai Industrial
Holding Limited, a substantial shareholder of the Company, Mr. Yao is not
otherwise connected with any directors, senior management or substantial or
controlling shareholders of the Company, nor is he interested in shares of the
Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Richard R.
Chang, Lai Xing Cai, Fang Yao (Alternate Director to Lai Xing Cai), Ta-Lin Hsu,
Sean Hunkler, Yen-Pong Jou, Tsuyoshi Kawanishi, Henry Shaw, Lip-Bu Tan and Yang
Yuan Wang.

                           Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
                                              Richard R. Chang
                                              Chairman

Hong Kong, 13 August 2004