Months before the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic China had removed investment quota on Qualified Financial Institutional Investor (QFII), and trading bands for Hong Kong Stock Connect (accessing China’s A-shares from HKEx) also increased as China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) vying to attract foreign investments. Most importantly, the highest governing body, the State Council has also given clear instruction to encourage greater participation of foreign investors.  Aptly put it, President Xi has reiterated that ‘China will uphold openness, and unswervingly expand in opening up so that the Chinese market will become a global, shared market – it’s everyone's market’. On positive notes, China stock markets were ranked highest in returns for 2020, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange rose 36%, and Shanghai placed in the world’s top 10, and A-shares’ total market capitalization (excluding HK, Taiwan and Chinese companies listed outside China) had exceeded RMB 70 trillion (USD 12 trillion), second largest after the U.S. The active and liquid trading in the Chinese stock markets is huge motivator for foreign stockbrokers and financial institutions to initiate a broader and comprehensive research coverage in recent years. Under such pretexts, China Knowledge has launched a barometer and rating system to boost the urgency and relevancy of investor relations (IR) of China’s listed companies; and such ratings allow

Months before the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic China had removed investment quota on Qualified Financial Institutional Investor (QFII), and trading bands for Hong Kong Stock Connect (accessing China’s A-shares from HKEx) also increased as China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) vying to attract foreign investments. Most importantly, the highest governing body, the State Council has also given clear instruction to encourage greater participation of foreign investors.  Aptly put it, President Xi has reiterated that ‘China will uphold openness, and unswervingly expand in opening up so that the Chinese market will become a global, shared market – it’s everyone's market’. On positive notes, China stock markets were ranked highest in returns for 2020, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange rose 36%, and Shanghai placed in the world’s top 10, and A-shares’ total market capitalization (excluding HK, Taiwan and Chinese companies listed outside China) had exceeded RMB 70 trillion (USD 12 trillion), second largest after the U.S. The active and liquid trading in the Chinese stock markets is huge motivator for foreign stockbrokers and financial institutions to initiate a broader and comprehensive research coverage in recent years. Under such pretexts, China Knowledge has launched a barometer and rating system to boost the urgency and relevancy of investor relations (IR) of China’s listed companies; and such ratings allow

Under President Trump administration, the U.S. takes a deliberate offensive trade tariffs on China’s USD 250 billion of imports, and it has brewed into an ongoing trade-war with the world’s largest developing nation. The move has been seen as a blunt protectionism that is unfavourable to citizens not just in both affected countries but in many parts of the world.  

Online retail sales in the most impoverished areas of China have surged last year by 52% to RMB 120.8 billion with commerce in these areas shaping up to be the next battlefield for Chinese e-commerce giants

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) added Chinese RMB to its special drawing rights (SDR) basket. The RMB joined an elite class of currencies which included the U.S. Dollar (USD), Euro, British Pound, and Japanese Yen to be safe, reliable and freely usable. IMF’s move may have raised many eye brows, as the Chinese RMB does not meet the criteria of being freely usable or widely tradeable currency in financial markets; It certainly did catch the attention of then U.S. Presidential candidate, Donald trump. He, after listening the news had said he would label China as a currency manipulator if he wins.  

Many may think about the differences between draught beer, draft beer and craft beer at the bars, but are too shy or reluctant to ask. Well, an answer to it is that a draft beer is a beer that flows “off the tap” as compared to bottled beers. As draught or draft beers mean the same and compared to bottled beer, the formal is being filtered and pasteurized. While craft beer is not filtered and pasteurized, leaving a little yeast and a heavy body.

The stock market of world’s second largest economy will open to foreigners living in China starting tomorrow, 15 September. It is a new rule, meaning that most foreigners living in China will be allowed to open local brokerage accounts to trade A-shares onshore.

In May 2018, China's president Xi Jinping has said that a new generation of information technology, represented by artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information, mobile communication, Internet and blockchain, was accelerating the breakthrough for applications.

Investors around the globe are watchful of the international political and financial developments that center on current U.S. and China’s trade relation. The emerging markets have already started to bear the scorch of conflict between the two colossal economic powerhouses.

Following the positive outcomes of President Xi Jinping’s state visit to UK in October 2015 and the China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue, authorities from the two countries have agreed through consultations to establish a market connect scheme between the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE). It allows listed companies from both countries to cross-list depository receipts (DRs), a program referred to as the Shanghai-London Stock Connect