Foreign investors' passion for A shares seen boosting market

Foreign investors' increasing participation in China's A-share trading will help improve market functioning and boost performance of large-cap equities and consumer stocks, analysts said.

Foreign investors' role has become more important in recent years, they said.

According to Aberdeen Standard Investments, a London-listed global asset manager, holdings of foreign investors in the A-share market accounted for about 2.5 percent of total market capitalization as of June this year, up from 2.1 percent and 1.3 percent by the end of 2017 and 2016.