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    <periodOfReport>2025-05-09</periodOfReport>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001704292</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Zai Lab Ltd</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>ZLAB</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

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            <rptOwnerName>Du Ying</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O ZAI LAB LIMITED</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>314 MAIN STREET, 4TH FLOOR, SUITE 100</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>CAMBRIDGE</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MA</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>02142</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>true</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>true</isOfficer>
            <officerTitle>Chairperson &amp; CEO</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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            <transactionDate>
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                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
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                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
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                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
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                <value>Stock Options (Right to Buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>0.6</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2025-05-09</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
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                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
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            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>50000</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F7"/>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2025-10-22</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>American Depositary Shares</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
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                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
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            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
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            <securityTitle>
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                <value>0.6</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2025-05-12</value>
            </transactionDate>
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            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
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                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
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                    <value>D</value>
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            <exerciseDate>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2025-10-22</value>
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            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>American Depositary Shares</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
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                <underlyingSecurityShares>
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                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
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                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>292776</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
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            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
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                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
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        </derivativeTransaction>
    </derivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each American Depositary Share (&quot;ADS&quot;) represents ten Ordinary Shares of the issuer. Our ADSs and Ordinary Shares are fully fungible. For purposes of this Form 4, we are reporting this in terms of ADSs.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The transactions reported in this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on November 20, 2024.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Reflects a weighted average sale price of $29.5803 per share, at prices ranging from $29.125 to $30.12 per share. The Reporting Person will provide, upon request by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Issuer, or a security holder of the Issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Reflects a weighted average sale price of $30.1645 per share, at prices ranging from $30.125 to $30.24 per share. The Reporting Person will provide, upon request by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Issuer, or a security holder of the Issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Reflects a weighted average sale price of $29.4374 per share, at prices ranging from $28.89 to $29.88 per share. The Reporting Person will provide, upon request by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Issuer, or a security holder of the Issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Reflects a weighted average sale price of $29.9201 per share, at prices ranging from $29.91 to $30.00 per share. The Reporting Person will provide, upon request by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Issuer, or a security holder of the Issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">The Stock Options fully vested as of October 22, 2020.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Bruce Blefeld, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2025-05-13</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
