The CSI 300 () is a capitalization-weighted

stock market index In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures a stock market, or a subset of the stock market, that helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices to calculate market performance. Two of the ...

designed to replicate the performance of the top 300 stocks traded on the

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and the

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. It has two sub-indexes: the

CSI 100 Index The CSI 100 Index () is a capitalization-weighted, free float adjusted stock market index designed to replicate the performance of top 100 stocks traded in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. It is a sub-index of CSI 300 Index The CSI ...

and the CSI 200 Index. Over the years, it has been deemed the Chinese counterpart of the

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index and a better gauge of the Chinese stock market than the more traditional SSE Composite Index. The index is compiled by the China Securities Index Company, Ltd. It has been calculated since April 8, 2005. Its value is normalized relative to a base of 1000 on December 31, 2004. It is considered to be a blue chip index for Mainland China stock exchanges.

Annual Returns

The following table shows the annual development of the CSI 300 Index since 2005.

Constituents

Sub-Indices

Moreover, there are the following ten sub-indices, which reflect specific sectors: * CSI 300 Energy Index * CSI 300 Materials Index * CSI 300 Industrials Index * CSI 300 Consumer Discretionary Index * CSI 300 Consumer Staples Index * CSI 300 Health Care Index * CSI 300 Financial Index * CSI 300 Information Technology Index * CSI 300 Telecommunications Index * CSI 300 Utilities Index CSI 300 Index also split into

and CSI 200 Index for top 100 companies and 101st to 300th companies

Historical changes

References

External links

China Securities Index CompanyBloomberg index pageIndex weighting download file
{{Asian Stock market indexes Chinese stock market indices Shanghai Stock Exchange Shenzhen Stock Exchange Lists of companies of China