Securities Daily | SSE Holds Southeast Asia International Roadshow Themed "Capturing Resilience and Growth in Chinese Assets Amid Global Uncertainty"

(Securities Daily) April 23 - To connect with capital markets in Southeast Asia, share the latest economic and market developments in China, and attract more Southeast Asian investors into China's capital market, Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) held an online international roadshow titled "Focus on SSE: Southeast Asia Session" on April 21. Under the theme "Capturing Resilience and Growth in Chinese Assets Amid Global Uncertainty", the event highlighted China's economic resilience and asset stability amid a complex and volatile international landscape, and the tech-driven growth opportunities within China's capital market. The event was attended by representatives from around 20 institutions including investment firms, financial intermediaries and stock exchanges from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.

According to the SSE during the event, the recent resilience and risk resistance demonstrated by China's market stem from the accelerating new quality productive forces, the steadily improving corporate quality, and a transparent, stable and predictable policy and market environment. Chinese assets have stood out as a unique global allocation target showing both safety and growth potential. The leapfrog development of the SSE ETF market, in particular the quickly expanding lineup of STAR Market ETFs, provides an important toolkit to invest in Chinese assets and capture China's growth opportunities. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the stability, growth potential and safety of Chinese assets will further solidify. Amid global asset allocation restructuring, Chinese assets will continue to show distinctive advantages and provide sources of stability and growth momentum.

The ASEAN has been China's largest trading partner for six consecutive years, and China has remained ASEAN's largest trading partner for 17 consecutive years, reflecting strong resilience in bilateral economic and trade cooperation. In recent years, the SSE has kept advancing high-standard two-way opening-up of the capital market, with a number of cooperation initiatives with Southeast Asian markets put into practice, making Chinese assets more accessible to Southeast Asian investors. In 2025, the first SSE ETF depositary receipts (DRs) listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) marked SSE ETF's first-ever entry into overseas markets via the DR model. Also in 2025, the SSE and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) jointly launched the CSI SGX Asia Select Indices. In 2023, the first pair of SSE-SGX ETF Connectivity products was listed on both exchanges. To date, five products have been launched under this scheme. In the long run, investing in Chinese assets will enable Southeast Asian investors to better share in the growth dividends of the China-ASEAN region, as well as the benefits of bilateral cooperation and regional prosperity.

It is reported that this event marked the second online international roadshow hosted by the SSE this year and the first of its "Emerging Markets" online roadshow series. Going forward, the SSE will host more roadshows with diverse themes and content for international investors from different regions and categories, fully showcasing the potential and resilience of China's economic development and opening-up achievements. Through these efforts, the SSE aims to attract more overseas medium and long-term funds to China's capital market to share the fruits of the high-quality development of China's capital market.