Qiu Yong, chairman of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, said in his speech at the 2026 Shanghai Stock Exchange International Investors Conference that the Shanghai Stock Exchange insists on overall openness and security, continuously optimizes the interconnection mechanism, improves the supporting system for overseas qualified institutional investors, continuously enriches the supply of products such as cross-border indices and ETFs, and focuses on creating a market-based, rule-of-law, and international investment and financing environment. Relying on multiple convenient channels, the path for global investors to participate in the Shanghai market is smoother, and the allocation of overseas capital to the Chinese capital market is steadily increasing. By the end of the third quarter of this year, overseas investors held more than 2 trillion yuan in circulation in Shanghai, an increase of 8.7% over the same period. Among them, the allocation of science and innovation assets continued to increase, and the scale of overseas tracking Shanghai and China Securities series products reached 107.1 billion yuan, fully reflecting that international investors are optimistic about the prospects of China's industrial upgrading and are willing to share the dividends of new quality productivity development with long-term value investment concepts. While unblocking investment channels, we continue to improve our service system for global investors. Special roadshows covering major investment regions around the world, in-depth face-to-face dialogues with sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and leading asset management institutions, and regularly organize overseas institutions to conduct field research on listed companies in Shanghai to help international investors seize investment opportunities in the Chinese capital market. In the next step, we will continue to deepen comprehensive investment and financing reforms, adhere to the collaborative efforts of the investment side and finance side, and persevere in promoting the quality improvement of listed companies; continue to enhance the inclusiveness and adaptability of the market system, optimize basic institutional arrangements, and play the role of a test field for science and technology innovation board reform to better help promote a virtuous cycle of technology, industry, and finance; unswervingly and steadily promote a high level of opening-up of the capital market to the outside world, iteratively optimize the interconnection mechanism, enrich the supply of international products, and continue to enhance the appeal of Chinese assets to global investors.

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