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China's stock index futures opened higher on Wednesday, with the contract for settlement in May, the most actively traded, opening at 2,655.8, up 17.2 points.
The city of Wenzhou was a symbol of family workshops, township enterprises, small commodities, housing speculators and private capital.
Rules on start-ups exiting from the stock exchange take effect on Tuesday.
Hong Kong's total deposits fell 0.9 percent in March, with a 1.6-percent drop in Hong Kong-dollar deposits, the Monetary Authority said.
Hong Kong's total assets of the exchange fund amounted to HK$2.5411 trillion ($327.55 billion) at the end of March, up HK$1.6 billion on February.
Foreign insurance companies will be able to undertake the business of China's compulsory traffic accident liability insurance as of Tuesday, according to an amended regulation released Monday.
China's stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen on Monday both said they will cut brokerage fees for A-share transactions by over 20 percent starting June 1.
Hong Kong stocks rose 352.76 points, or 1.70 percent, to close at 21,094.21 on Monday.
The Sinopec Group said it will buy a 25-percent stake in a nitrile butadiene rubber plant belonging to leading Russian petrochemical company SIBUR.
The gold price in Hong Kong went up HK$100 to open at HK$15,470 per tael on Monday, according to the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society.
China's three commodity futures exchanges lowered trading commissions for all products effective June 1.
ICBC posted the slowest earnings growth in almost three years as an economic slowdown and rising credit curtailed expansion in loan margins.