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SEC Response Letter

		SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM
DIRECT DIAL +852 3740 4863       DIRECT FAX +852 3910 4863       EMAIL ADDRESS JULIE.GAO@SKADDEN.COM PARTNERS JOHN ADEBIYI ¨ CHRISTOPHER W. BETTS WILL H. CAI ^ GEOFFREY CHAN * EDWARD H.P. LAM ¨* HAIPING LI * RORY MCALPINE ¨ CLIVE W. ROUGH ¨ JONATHAN B. STONE * ^ (ALSO ADMITTED IN CALIFORNIA) ¨ (ALSO ADMITTED IN ENGLAND & WALES) * (ALSO ADMITTED IN NEW YORK) REGISTERED FOREIGN LAWYERS Z. JULIE GAO (CALIFORNIA) BRADLEY A. KLEIN (ILLINOIS) CHI T. STEVE KWOK (NEW YORK)		42/F, EDINBURGH TOWER, THE LANDMARK 15 QUEEN’S ROAD CENTRAL, HONG KONG TEL: (852) 3740-4700 FAX: (852) 3740-4727 www.skadden.com		AFFILIATE OFFICES BOSTON CHICAGO HOUSTON LOS ANGELES NEW YORK PALO ALTO WASHINGTON, D.C. WILMINGTON BEIJING BRUSSELS FRANKFURT LONDON MOSCOW MUNICH PARIS SÃO PAULO SEOUL SHANGHAI SINGAPORE TOKYO TORONTO

April 3, 2017

Christian Windsor

Jessica Livingston

Gus Rodriguez

Marc Thomas

Division of Corporation Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Re: PPDAI Group Inc. (CIK No. 0001691445)

Supplemental Submission to the Staff

Dear Mr. Windsor, Ms. Livingston, Mr. Rodriguez and Mr. Thomas:

On behalf of our client, PPDAI Group Inc., a foreign private issuer organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”), we hereby make a supplemental submission of the following to the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to the Staff’s request communicated to us on March 30, 2017:

• the English translation of the homepage of the Company’s website, attached as Annex I hereto.

To facilitate your review, we have separately delivered to you today five courtesy copies of Annex I.

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Securities and Exchange Commission

April 3, 2017

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If you have any questions regarding this submission, please contact the undersigned by phone at +852-3740-4863 or via e-mail at julie.gao@skadden.com.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Z. Julie Gao

Z. Julie Gao

Enclosures

cc: Jun Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PPDAI Group Inc.

Simon Tak Leung Ho, Chief Financial Officer, PPDAI Group Inc.

Haiping Li, Esq., Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Jimmy Leung, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP

Sean Fu, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP

Shuang Zhao, Esq., Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

ANNEX I

ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE HOMEPAGE OF

THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE