The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE; ) is a

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based in the city of

Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...

, in the People's Republic of China. It is one of three stock exchanges operating independently in

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, the others being the

Beijing Stock Exchange The Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE; ) is a stock exchange based in Beijing, China. It is one of the three stock exchanges operating independently in mainland China, the others being the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Histo ...

and the

Shanghai Stock Exchange The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shanghai, China. It is one of the three stock exchanges operating independently in mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exc ...

. It is situated in the

Futian Futian District () is one of the nine districts comprising the city of Shenzhen, China. The district is home to the government and Municipal Committee of Shenzhen, as well as the city's central business district (CBD). Name There are two theori ...

district of Shenzhen. With a

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of its listed companies around US$2.504 trillion in 2019, it is the 7th largest stock exchange in the world, and 4th largest in

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and

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History

On December 1, 1990, Shenzhen Stock Exchange was founded. In January 1992, Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour saved China's

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and the two stock exchanges (the other is

). In July 1997, the

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decided that the Shenzhen Stock Exchange would be directly managed by the

China Securities Regulatory Commission The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is a government ministry of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is the main regulator of the securities industry in China. History China's first Securities Law was ...

. In May 2004, the SME Board was launched. In October 2009, the ChiNext market () was inaugurated.

State-owned companies

Many of the companies within this market are subsidiaries of companies in which the Chinese government maintains controlling interest.

Hours

The exchange has pre-market sessions from 09:15am to 09:25am and normal trading sessions from 09:30am to 11:30am and 1:00pm to 3:00pm

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( UTC+08:00) on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

ChiNext

The exchange opened the

ChiNext ChiNext is a NASDAQ-style subsidiary of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The first batch of firms started trading on ChiNext on October 30, 2009. As of June 2015, there were 464 firms listed on ChiNext. ChiNext aims to attract innovative and fast-g ...

board (), a

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-type exchange for high-growth, high-tech start-ups, on October 23, 2009.

Market data

''(As of January 2021)''Shenzhen Stock Exchange Market Overview
/ref> *Listed companies: 2,375 *

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: RMB 34,463,161.66million (US$5.24 trillion)

Listings

Building

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange building is a

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with a height of and 49 floors. Its construction started in 2008 and was finished in 2013.The building was designed by

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a re ...

's firm, the

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. The building is located at 2012 Shennan Blvd.,

District. With an area of 200,000 square metres, five high speed elevators and a futuristic design, the partners involved in the design and construction of this sky scraper included Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten, Ellen van Loon and Shohei Shigematsu and construction by The Second Construction Co., Ltd of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation.

References

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