Shanghai Stock Exchange extends deadline for companies' release of 2019 financial reports

FILE PHOTO: People walk under an electronic board showing stock information at the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Lujiazui Financial Area before the visit of Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in Shanghai, China, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Shanghai Stock exchange said on Sunday it would extend its deadline for companies to release their annual financial reports for 2019 until April 30, as companies halt normal activities due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the country.

Those companies that cannot make the April 30 deadline should contact relevant regulators, it said.