The STAR Market Eight Measures Stimulates Index-based Investing and Channels Financial Resources Towards Technology Sector

Translated from Shanghai Securities News—www.cnstock.com

(Reporter He Xinyi) Over the past year since its release, the STAR Market Eight Measures has facilitated improvement in capital market investment toolkit and provided policy basis for expanding STAR Market ETF products, which effectively channels financial resources towards the technology sector.

The policy has delivered notable outcomes since its release, as the number of index products on the STAR Market has continued to grow, setting new records in both the number and scale of STAR Market ETFs. As of June 6, 51 new STAR Market ETFs are added to the SSE, bringing the total to 80, nearly three times the number before the release of the STAR Market Eight Measures. Currently, 27 fund companies have engaged in STAR Market ETF business, an increase of 13 compared to before the release of the policy.

The SSE has developed a comprehensive, multi-level index and ETF product ecosystem for the STAR Market, covering broad-based, industry-themed, strategy and other types of indices. In the past year, the STAR Market broad-based ETFs have rapidly expanded, effectively guiding social funds toward the areas of new quality productive forces. The overall market cap of broad-based ETFs on the STAR Market has exceeded 200 billion yuan. The launch of the STAR Market 200 ETF and the STAR Market Composite Index ETF has further supplemented and improved the broad-based index product system of the STAR Market, playing an important role in attracting incremental capital and serving key and core technology innovations. The underlying assets of broad-based ETFs on the STAR Market now cover STAR 50, 100, 200, and Composite Indices, creating a comprehensive product chain that meets varying investment demands across large-, medium-, small-cap, and diverse market strategies.

The SSE STAR ETF market is broadening its coverage of sectors of new quality productive forces, providing the market with more diversified STAR Market investment tools. After the implementation of the STAR Market Eight Measures, the investment targets of the STAR Market industry-themed ETFs have continued to diversify. The listed products now cover sub-sectors of key new areas of productive power such as artificial intelligence, new energy, chip design, semiconductor materials and equipment, and industrial machinery on the STAR Market.

Take the chip industry as an example, the market cap of the STAR Market chip ETFs exceeds 30 billion yuan; in the field of artificial intelligence, the market cap of the six STAR Market artificial intelligence ETFs listed in 2025 has grown more than three times compared to the time of issuance. Recently, the first STAR Market innovative drug ETFs and other products have also been approved. Going forward, the SSE will continue to increase the supply of STAR Market indices and ETF products, creating a new investment high ground for new quality productive forces.

The above information is provided for reference purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.