Shanghai Securities News｜Yuan Duoran from SSE: Give Full Play to the Role of the Capital Market in Resource Allocation and Promote the Coordinated Development of Global Transition Finance

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(Shanghai Securities News, www.cnstock.com) (Reporters Li Lingxi and Zhou Liang) On March 28, Yuan Duoran, Executive Vice President of Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), delivered a speech at the "Financial Roundtable: Transition Finance for a Net-Zero Future" sub-forum of Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2025. Yuan stated that as a major participant in the capital market, the SSE is willing to work with global partners to further give full play to the role of the capital market in resource allocation and jointly promote the coordinated development of global transition finance through multi-party exchanges and cooperation.

Yuan said that in recent years, the SSE has worked hard to build a financial ecosystem that supports green and low-carbon transformation from multiple aspects. In the stock market, the SSE has focused on new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, low-carbon transportation and other fields and support relevant companies in listing and financing. So far, there are more than 50 new energy, energy-saving and environmental protection companies listed on the SSE STAR Market.

Additionally, the SSE is committed to promoting listed companies to improve the quality of information disclosure on sustainable development. It has issued the Guidelines No. 14 of Shanghai Stock Exchange for Self-Regulation of Listed Companies—Sustainability Report (Trial), which adopts the international mainstream disclosure framework, and sets up arrangements such as combining qualitative and quantitative disclosure and a transition period. By strengthening training and issuing guidelines, the SSE helps listed companies prepare for sustainable information disclosure.

In the bond market, the SSE is committed to enriching financial instruments and encouraging both investment and financing to support green transformation and development. The SSE has launched green bond products since 2016. As of now, over 800 billion yuan of green bonds have been issued. At the same time, the SSE has actively explored financial instruments to support transformation and encourages enterprises to issue a variety of instruments, such as low-carbon transformation bonds, low-carbon transformation-linked bonds, and sustainable development-linked bonds.

On the product side, the SSE has actively guided funds to increase their allocation to ESG fields. So far, the SSE and China Securities Index have developed nearly 150 ESG indexes, and the corresponding tracking product scale has exceeded 80 billion yuan. There are nearly 50 green ETFs listed on the SSE, with a market cap of more than 30 billion yuan, providing investors with transparent and convenient green investment channels. Yuan said that these instruments not only send signals of long-term value but also convert environmental performance into quantifiable returns on investment.

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