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In order to improve the professional skills and working quality of board secretaries, enhance the transparency of regulation, comply with the requirements on board secretaries to return to their due responsibilities, and further increase the regulation efficiency and service level, an Information Disclosure Practical Manual for Board Secretaries (hereinafter referred to as “the Manual”) has recently finished by Shenzhen Stock Exchange (“SZSE”) in hands with some listed companies.
Taking information disclosure, the most important duty on board secretaries, as a breakthrough point, the Manual covers the following contents and over 400 problems in the 12 chapters: overview of information disclosure practice, securities offering and listing, provisional reports, periodic reports, trading and connected transactions, equity changes, major assets restructuring, equity incentive, special treatments of trading suspension and resumption and delisting, corporate governance and standardized operations, investor relations management, SZSE services, etc.
It is learned that the Manual has the following four characteristics: first, the Manual focuses on solving the practical problems in information disclosure, in compliance with the concept of regulation transition; second, the Manual takes the form of “ask and answer”, easy to understand and look up; third, important issues and error-prone problems in daily work are demonstrated with typical cases and the risks thereof are specially warned; and four, the contents of the Manual are close to the actual practice and to the point, with over 20 experienced board secretaries participating in the writing.
In recent years, SZSE has been exerting itself to improve market service level and enhance regulatory transparency. After years of exploration and accumulation, a six-in-one public service platform has been established. The compilation of the Manual this time is a beneficial trial of SZSE to improve regulatory transparency, and is important achievements of its attempt to extend the service work. In the process of writing, SZSE further strengthened its communication and cooperation with board secretaries and other main market players, and accumulated experience and laid a foundation for future attempt to provide services in more flexible and varied forms.
