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Wenzhou Light Rail May Be Open to Private Investors

By staff reporter Wang Xiaoqing

(Beijing) – Private investors in Wenzhou may be able to cash in on local infrastructure building as the government moves ahead with reforms to invigorate and guide private investment. The city is about to launch an ambitio [阅读全文]

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Era Ends for China's Legendary Stock Picker

By staff reporters Zheng Fei and Shen Hu, and intern reporter Liu Ran

(Beijing)–Investors who closely followed the stocks picks of one of China's most successful brokers are wandering in the wilderness – and wondering what will happen next to their unemployed luminary Wang Yawei.In April, an [阅读全文]

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Shanxi Securities to Buy Green Futures

By staff reporter Zhang Yuzhe

(Beijing) – Shanxi Securities Co., Ltd. is set for full ownership of Green Futures through an equity-swap deal, a source inside the futures firm told Caixin on Wednesday.The agreement had been announced to Green Futures' staff, he said, but did not disclose details of the transaction. Green Futures, founded [阅读全文]

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Hard Lesson for China-Concept Stock Investors

(Beijing)–Imagine discovering on your first day as a new CEO that your employer is merely a shell destined for a shameful delisting on the Nasdaq Stock Market.That's what happened recently to ChinaCast Education Corp. CEO Feng Yiyi, who is now trying to sort out what's left of a gutted business [阅读全文]

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China Life to Invest in CITIC PE Fund

By staff reporter Wang Ziwu

(Beijing)–China Life Insurance has committed to investing 2 billion yuan in CITIC Private Equity Funds, the latest step taken by the insurer to tap the PE sector. A source closed to the situation said China Life, the country's biggest insurer by market value, agreed to take 20 percent of CITIC's third private equi [阅读全文]

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Regulator Paves Way for Foreign Investment in Futures Market

By staff reporter Zheng Fei

(Beijing) – China is mapping out foreign ownership restrictions in domestic futures firms, as it prepares to reopen the door to foreign investment in its futures market.The nation's securities regulator, the China Securities and Regulatory Commission, said in a notification on its website on May 14 that a [阅读全文]

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Central Bank Cuts Key Ratio Again

By staff reporter Li Yuqian

(Beijing) – China has relaxed banks' reserve-requirement ratios to pump up liquidity after an unexpected drop in new bank loans last month, but economists say the move may be inadequate. From May 18, the reserve-requirement ratio for China's large deposit-taking institutions will be 20 percent, down half a pe [阅读全文]

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Closer Look: Rules on Foreign Investors Eased

By staff reporter Lu Yuan

The attitude of China's securities regulator seems to have turned a corner when it comes to the domestic arena. In a recently published summary of agreements reached in the fourth China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue, China pledge to increase the ceiling of equity shares that can be held by foreign inve [阅读全文]

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Asset Managers Say 'In Real Estate We Trust'

By staff reporter Zhang Yuzhe

(Beijing)–China's distressed property market has been spread like a banquet before the nation's asset management companies (AMCs), but a regulator apparently doesn't want anyone gorging.Four state-run AMCs – China Cinda As [阅读全文]

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Big Four Auditors Get Rules for Restructuring

By staff reporter Wang Yuqian

(Beijing) – Beijing has announced policies to guide the transition of the Big Four audit firms from joint ventures to special general partnerships, which essentially requires most partners to hold Chinese accountancy qualifi [阅读全文]

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Foreign PE Firms Left in Limbo

By staff reporter Wang Ziwu

(Beijing) – Overseas private equity companies may have been disappointed when the top economic regulator said they cannot circumvent restrictions on foreign investments by setting up a local fund management firm. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) released the notice in late April in [阅读全文]

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CSRC Mulls Tax Incentives for Pension Fund Investment

By staff reporter Fu Tao

(Beijing) – The China Securities Regulatory Commission said it is considering tax credit provisions to jumpstart pension fund investments in the stock market.In an online information briefing with investors, the CSRC's Investor Protection Bureau said several government departments are discussing the option [阅读全文]

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Tipping Trade Scales for Yuan Equilibrium

By staff reporter Ye Weiqiang

Yi Gang was one of the first Chinese university students allowed to study abroad after the Cultural Revolution, and today he is vice governor of the People's Bank of China as well as director of the State Administration of [阅读全文]

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China to Submit Fourth GPA Offer

By staff reporter Yu Hairong

(Beijing) – China has committed to delivering a fourth offer regarding government procurement to a World Trade Organization committee by the end of the year.The commitment was made during the fourth round of regular trade and diplomatic talks between China and the United States known as the Strategic a [阅读全文]

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A Case for Gradual, Coordinated Yuan Reform

By staff reporters Huo Kan and Zhang Jiwei

Sheng Songcheng's research team recently released a pair of central bank position papers offering a roadmap for reform. In his capacity as director of the bank's Surveys and Statistics Department, Sheng later offered a deepe [阅读全文]

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800 Mln Yuan in New April Loans, Survey Finds

By staff reporter Li Yuqian

(Beijing) – Chinese banks may have extended 800 billion yuan in new loans in April, significantly lower than in March, a survey by Caixin shows.Estimates from 23 financial institutions polled in the survey ranged from 700 billion yuan to 900 billion yuan and averaged 800 billion yuan. March's figure was 1.01 [阅读全文]

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Credit Cooperative Insiders Play Name Con Game

By staff reporter Zhang Yuzhe

(Beijing) –The sudden death of a rural credit union loan officer last year lifted the veil on a major loan scam in northeast China.The August heart attack that killed Zhang Jingzhi, 52, prompted authorities to investigate records and eventually trace a scheme that targeted small borrowers in ru [阅读全文]

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Hu Urges Improved Sino-U.S. Trust

By staff reporter Han Wei

(Beijing) - China and the United States need to deepen trust in each other, expand their common ground and properly deal with differences, Chinese President Hu Jintao said as the two countries opened regular trade and diplomatic talks in Beijing on May 3. "Given our different national condition [阅读全文]

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Eight Banks Sue Shide Over Loans

By staff reporters Yu Ning, Wen Xiu and Li Shen

(Dalian) – At least eight banks have filed lawsuits against Dalian Shide Group and its subsidiaries to secure repayment for loans they made to the troubled conglomerate.Also, Bank of Dalian, a city commercial bank waiting [阅读全文]

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Delisting Rules for Growth Board Unveiled

Compiled by Caixin

(Beijing) – A Chinese bourse has unveiled a delisting plan that starts with its growth board. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which hosts the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), enacted a new regulation for delisting on May 1. Since the plan was announced April 20, the GEM index fell by more than 6 percent. The new rule s [阅读全文]

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Wenzhou Light Rail May Be Open to Private Investors

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