Shanghai Stock Exchange: Public Bidding Invitation For 20th SSE Joint Research Plan

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is seeking bidders from home and abroad for research subjects in its 20th SSE Joint Research Plan.

The SSE had run 19 joint research plans. The plans aim to make full use of relevant domestic and foreign research resources, make intensive research on hot and frontier issues of China's securities market, improve market research, and promote exchange of excellent research results. All this is to provide independent, rational, high-level, forward-looking policy suggestions and implementation schemes for the development of China's securities market.

It is learnt that the major research subjects of the 20th SSE Joint Research Plan include: (1) management of state-owned assets and optimization of governance structure of listed companies controlled by central state-owned enterprises; (2) mechanism to curb capital occupation by major shareholders of listed companies; (3) design of incentive system for senior management of listed companies; (4) analysis on the modes of overall listing of listed companies and their effects; (5) non-fair connected transactions and the prevention system; (6) short-swing manipulation modes and regulation; (7) comparison of systems for qualified investors; and (8) innovation of index-linked products (including ETF and ETC).