China may soon roll out revised rules for foreign investors

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): China may soon enforce the revised rules for qualified institutional investor programmes and allow foreign access to almost all major financial assets, levelling the playing field for domestic and foreign institutional investors, officials and experts said.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country's top securities regulator, said recently that it will, as soon as possible, roll out the revised rules for the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors programme, known as QFII, and the renminbi-denominated RQFII, two programmes that enable licensed foreign institutions to invest in the mainland markets.