中国即将允许外企在华上市

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　　Beijing will finally start allowing foreign companies to list in China, reflecting its ambitions to open up the country's financial sector and transform Shanghai into an international financial centre.
       
        　　“I think some time early next year we will have one or two foreign companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange,” Fang Xinghai, director-general of the Shanghai government's Financial Services Office, told the Financial Times.
       
        　　“Very likely, the Shanghai Stock Exchange will get an international board, and [foreign companies] would be subject to a different set of listing rules which would suit foreign companies and which would also make sure that there will be adequate information for Chinese investors.”
       
        　　The market regulator controlled by the central government must sign off on the decision. But Mr Fang said this was “the likely outcome”.
       
        　　The plans follow an announcement by the finance ministry earlier this week that the country would sell Rmb6bn of bonds in Hong Kong later this month to ‘improve the international status' of its currency. Some multinational companies have also signalled they would be interested in issuing shares in mainland China.
       
        　　“We will definitely want to do it,” Stephen Green, HSBC's chairman, said at the bank's first-half results conference in Hong Kong last month. “That is the strategic statement that we'd like to make.”
       
        　　Mr Fang said foreign listings would start with a pilot phase, an approach China has often taken in the past 30 years to test market reforms before adopting them more broadly.
       
        　　“There will not be dozens and dozens of foreign companies in the short term, but things will be done in a gradual fashion.”
       
        　　中国政府终于将开始允许外国公司在华上市，此举反映出其开放中国金融业、把上海改造为国际金融中心的雄心。
       
        　　上海市政府金融服务办公室主任方星海对英国《金融时报》表示：“我认为明年初的某个时候，将会有一、两家外国公司在上海证交所上市。”
       
        　　“很有可能的是，上海证交所将成立一个国际板，[外国公司]将遵守一套不同的上市规则。这套规则既适合外国公司，也将确保中国投资者得到充足的信息。”
       
        　　这项决定须经中央政府所掌控的市场监管机构签署。但方星海表示，监管批准是“很有可能的结果”。
       
        　　此前，中国财政部曾在本周早些时候宣布，将于本月晚些时候在香港发售60亿元人民币（合8.78亿美元）国债，以“提高人民币的国际地位”。一些跨国公司也已表示，它们有意在中国内地发行股票。
       
        　　汇丰董事长葛霖在该行上月于香港举行的中期业绩发布会上表示：“我们肯定想在内地发股。我们希望做出这一战略声明。”
       
        　　方星海表示，外国公司在华上市首先将进行试点，然后才会在更大范围推行。试点是中国在过去30年为检验市场改革措施而经常采用的做法。
       
        　　“短期内不会有许多外国公司在华上市，但事情将一步步推进。”