The two-way opening-up of index investment will be promoted steadily, according to the document. China will expand the institutional opening-up of index products, improve the exchange-traded fund (ETF) connectivity mechanism, and attract foreign capital to participate in China's A-share market through index investment.

China announced new measures to boost the development of index investment products, its latest effort to revive the ailing equity market, per Bloomberg. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) stated that the government aims to achieve a significant increase in the scale and proportion of index investment in the capital market through efforts over a period of time.

Foreign financial institutions expanding their operations in China (Voice_over) China has announced additional measures to encourage foreign investment into the country including policies to improve international companies' foreign currency fund pool operations.

Chinese financial authorities have introduced new measures aimed at promoting long-term investment in the stock market. Wu Qing, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, emphasized that long-term funding will serve as a stabilizing force for China's equity market.

China is guiding local mutual funds and insurers to boost their stock purchases in the government’s latest initiative to shore up its ailing equity market as it confronts the threat of higher tariffs.

Starting this year, major Chinese state-owned insurance companies will "strive to" invest 30% of their new premium income in mainland-listed stocks, Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, told reporters. He said this should pump "hundreds of billions of yuan of new long-term funds" into the stock market.

China is set to slash pay for staff at its top three financial regulators, including the central bank, by about half, as part of a regulatory revamp unveiled in 2023 to bring their salaries in line with other civil servants,

China on Thursday detailed measures to encourage state-owned funds and insurers to buy more shares, aimed at stabilizing the struggling stock market at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to announce tariffs on Chinese imports.

Starting this year, 30 per cent of the annual insurance premium from new policies will be put into yuan-denominated A shares, regulator Wu Qing said.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country's top securities watchdog, said at a work conference on Monday that it will step up joint monitoring and supervision of the country's stock, exchange-traded and over-the-counter markets, as well as the futures and spot markets.

China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan of investment from state-owned insurers into shares as part of the government's latest efforts to support a struggling stock market.

China rolled out a basket of measures to stabilize its stock markets, including plans to boost the amount pension can invest in the nation’s listed companies, as it combats uncertainty in a second Donald Trump presidency.