Capital Markets

Enterprise income tax may not be levied by assessment against enterprises that solely engage in equity (stock) investment business.

New Provisions have created competition between brokers by allowing foreign institutional investors to use more than one securities dealer

Gary J Gao and Y Q Richard Song of Duan & Duan Law Firm provide a guide to developments in China's capital markets, including the drive to increase transparency and recover from the Muddy Waters scandal

The Measures have been revised to pave the way for seed funding requiring the size of the fund to be at least Rmb50 million and the number of fundholders to be at least 200.

The limit on the total of the holdings of the A shares of a single listed company by all QFIIs is now increased from 20% to 30% of the listed company's total shares. The qualification thresholds for QFIIs have also been relaxed.

Futures companies allowed to tap into the wealth management business.

Asset-backed notes issued on the interbank bond market.

Shanghai Stock Exchange serves as the platform for margin trading and short sale of securities.

China steps up its developing margin trading programme.