The China Securities Regulatory Commission has revised the Rules for Share Repurchase of Listed Companies (hereinafter referred to as the "Repurchase Rules") and the Rules for Management on Shares Held by Directors, Supervisors and Senior Management of Listed Companies and Their Changes (hereinafter referred to as the "Rules for Share Change Management").

Share Reduction by Shareholders of Listed Companies on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange by Inquiry Transfer and Placement to Specific Institutional Investors (Revised in October 2022)

National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (“NAFMII”) hereby promulgates the Detailed Rules for the Administration of Tiered Management of Debt Financing Instruments of Overseas Non-Financial Enterprises (the “Detailed Rules”) and the Form Requirements for Registration Documents for Debt Financing Instruments of Overseas Non-Financial Enterprises (the “Form”) with a view to fully implementing the policy of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to expand the open-up of the financial sector in an active and orderly manner and further improving the quality and level of the open-up of the debt financing instruments market. To further regulate the registration and issuances of debt financing instruments by overseas non-financial enterprises, NAFMII hereby provides the notice on the relevant matters as follows:

Chinese goverment will place equal attention on delegating power and improving regulation, promote both development and standardized management, and build a system of digital rules with a view to creating an open, healthy, and secure digital ecosystem.

To download the file →http://www.nafmii.org.cn/englishnew/selfregulations/selfregulatoryrulesandguid

On April 12, SZSE’s wholly-owned subsidiary Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “SSIC”) issued an announcement, saying that in order to better serve the development of the capital market and meet the diversified investment needs of the market, it has decided to revise the compilation plan of CNI cross-market index after seeking the opinions of market participants. The SSE STAR market securities that have been listed for over a year will be included into the index constituent selection pool while the other rules remain unchanged.

Pursuant to the Detailed Rules for the Administration of Tiered Management of Debt Financing Instruments of Overseas Non-financial Enterprises, overseas seasoned enterprises may prepare one set of registration documents covering multiple types of debt financing instruments, including super short-term commercial paper (SCP), commercial paper (CP), medium-term notes (MTN), perpetual notes (PN), asset-backed notes (ABN) and green notes (GN), and apply for DFI Registration. To further facilitate the issuance of panda bonds by overseas unseasoned enterprises, the pilot program will allow overseas unseasoned enterprises to apply for DFI Registration and set a registration amount at the time of registration.

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