The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is formulating specific short-term trading systems for foreign investors to facilitate their investment in the A-share market, as China steps up effort in expanding opening of its capital market, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Sunday.

Chinese Depository Receipts (CDRs) are certificates issued by mainland China custodian banks, representing the listed shares that are deposited by foreign listed companies (Hong Kong companies included) in their local depositary banks. CDRs are listed on the A-share market in mainland China and are traded and settled in RMB by mainland China investors.

the northbound leg of the connect program covers a wide range of ETFs in the A-share market, including biomedicine, chipmaking and carbon neutrality

The roughly 70 billion yuan ($10 billion) of foreign capital that has flowed into the A-share market this month marks the biggest such monthly net inflow this year

The adoption of a registration-based IPO mechanism throughout the A-share market, which was proposed in the annual Government Work Report this year for the first time, will further facilitate the country's technology innovation and deepening of the reform of the Chinese capital market

Although A-share market sentiment was impaired by growing global geopolitical tensions on Feb.24, a rebound and independent performance can be expected thanks to China's economy-stabilizing policies and dual-circulation development pattern, experts said.

China's A-share market set a record high of 524 newly listed companies in 2021, with Shanghai and Shenzhen topping the list by having 48 and 41 newly listed enterprises, respectively, with Beijing (40) and Hangzhou (37) following closely.