Beijing bourse: China’s busy bureaucrats

From Beijing’s plans to overhaul its small-business stock exchange to Shanghai’s push to be a global financial services leader, legislators never seem to rest in China.

China’s army of financial bureaucrats must rank high on the list of the busiest people on the planet.

Rarely does a month go by without some rule change making the news. Most are mere tweaks to existing legislation, but a few represent real change and often come as a genuine surprise.

This was the case on September 3. Speaking at a trade conference in Beijing, president Xi Jinping revealed plans for a new stock exchange, to be based in the capital, with the aim of serving small- and medium-sized enterprises.

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