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Shenzhen Stock Exchange Held 10th Board Secretary Training Courses For SME Listed Companies

Date 23/12/2011

To further improve the information disclosure of the SME listed companies, enhance the awareness of the listed companies for honest and compliant operation, Shenzhen Stock Exchange recently held the 10th session of board secretary training course for the SME listed companies. Zhang Ying, the deputy general manager of SZSE, attended the opening ceremony and gave a speech. This training combined real time broadcast training with onsite training, and more than 530 persons, including the board secretaries and securities affairs representatives of almost 300 SME listed companies, attended the training.

As pointed out by Zhang Ying, the board secretaries play a decisive role in the information disclosure quality of listed companies and thus should comprehensively enhance the professional and operational competence of their own and make full use of their functions to perform well the external communications of listed companies: 1. conduct well the Investor Relations Management by fully respect the investors’ rights and carefully answer their questions; 2. make full communication with the regulators to enhance cooperation; 3. carry out effective communication with the media to deliver the real situations of the company to the investors. Besides, the board secretaries should strengthen study continuously so that the newest requirements on the laws and regulations in Securities market can be delivered to the company managers and shareholders timely. Furthermore, Zhang Ying also pointed out that the listed companies should seize the good opportunity that China is vigorously promoting the development of SMEs, to normalize the operation and strengthen the advantages of their own. 

This training mainly includes the legal rights and obligations of the board secretary, general rules for the information disclosure of listed companies, code of conduct for directors, supervisors and executives as well as stockholders and actual controllers, prevention and control of insider transaction, and stock registration business, etc. It provides comprehensive and detailed explanation for the attendees on the requirements of the information disclosure and normalized operation of the listed companies and has received great welcome and good effect.