Hisense bought the troubled South China-based appliance maker earlier this year. It wants to use Kelon's Hong Kong listing to gain access to foreign capital markets.

"This is definitely something we will do," Hisense vice president Cheng Kaixun told Reuters in an interview in the company's headquarters in the coastal city of Qingdao.

"We hope to do this by year-end, but there are lots of procedures we have to go through."