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China Vows to Continue Opening Financial Markets
Bloomberg News
2019年9月29日 下午7:14 [GMT+8] Updated on 2019年9月30日 上午7:52 [GMT+8]



China said it would continue to open up its financial markets and encourage foreign investment amid reports the Trump administration is considering restrictions on fund flows to China.

“We will take further steps to promote high quality two-way financial opening, encourage foreign financial institutions and funds to invest in the domestic financial market to boost the competitiveness and dynamism of the domestic financial system,” according to a summary from the eighth meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Committee posted on its website Sunday.

The world’s two largest economies are heading into another round of high-level trade talks following China’s week-long national holidays starting Oct. 1. A U.S. crackdown on capital flows would present a new pressure point in the economic dispute, and could cause disruptions well beyond the tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of products the two sides have levied against each other.

“Chinese efforts to enhance reform and opening will be slowed down in the short term, but it will never be stopped,” said Liao Qun, Hong Kong-based chief economist with China Citic Bank International Ltd. “China could explore European, Southeast Asian and the Belt and Road markets in lieu of the U.S.”

Bloomberg News reported on Friday the Trump administration is considering measures including delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges, limiting Americans’ exposure to the Chinese market through government pension funds, and putting caps on Chinese companies included in stock indexes managed by U.S. firms.

The U.S. Treasury said in a statement on Saturday that the administration “is not contemplating blocking Chinese companies from listing shares on U.S. stock exchanges at this time.” The statement did not address or rule out other possibilities.

Extreme Threat

While various Chinese media republished the Bloomberg story and Treasury Department’s statement, they were not immediately seen responding to the deliberations by the Trump administration. The Foreign Ministry didn’t reply to a fax on Saturday seeking comment, while the Commerce Ministry didn’t address the issue at a press conference on Sunday.

On Monday, traders in China’s markets will have to decide how to price the risk of the potential U.S. move, which Citigroup Inc. has termed the most extreme threat against China in the escalating rivalry between the two economies so far.


U.S. investment in China’s domestic markets are limited -- residents had $203 billion of long-term mainland Chinese financial assets as of June, little more than double that held in South Africa, according to the U.S. Treasury. Far bigger is the $1.2 trillion market capitalization of Chinese companies on three key U.S. exchanges as of February, according to a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

China has been accelerating financial opening in the past two years, promising to lift foreign ownership caps for securities, mutual fund companies and life insurers by next year. Most recently, regulators scrapped a foreign investment quota limit, allowing qualified overseas funds to simply register before buying onshore stocks and bonds.

Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Francis Chan and Sharnie Wong estimate that barring a major economic slowdown or change of course, foreign banks and securities companies could rake in profits of about $9 billion a year in China by 2030. The increasing ties between Wall Street and the Chinese market could make some of its executives important voices for China in Washington.

The State Council’s Financial Stability and Development Committee is a cabinet-level body set up in July 2017 with the aim of improving coordination of financial-sector supervision. The committee is chaired by Vice Premier Liu He.

— With assistance by Lucille Liu, Jun Luo, Kiu Yan Wong, and Jing Jin