Five things you should know about China’s new IPO system

Five things you should know about China’s new IPO system

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a face mask walks on a pedestrian overpass with an electronic board showing the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes, China, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

China is about to take a major step forward in the overhaul of the country’s $12.7 trillion stock market with plans to roll out its registration-based IPO system to the country’s two biggest boards in Shanghai and Shenzhen, completing a shift that began in 2019 when the new mechanism was first used.