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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:08:38 EST
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- Subject: Chinese Stock Market
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- Source: UPI, 11/20/92
- Written by: John Leicester
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- BEIJING -- The Chinese government has said it will allow no new stock
- markets for at least three years, citing fears of chaos if new exchanges
- are set up before stock laws are strengthened, an official newspaper said
- Friday.
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- The ban on new stock markets came despite economists' warnings that China's
- present two fledgling stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen, near Hong
- Kong, can no longer cope with huge investor demand.
-
- "The two exchanges are obviously unable to stand the strain," the state-run
- China Daily quoted economists as saying.
-
- Economists and market experts also warned that limiting exchanges to
- Shanghai and Shenzhen had drained funds from elsewhere in China and "will
- widen the gap between the economies of the south and the north," the
- newspaper said.
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- "It is necessary to establish a bourse in each economic region by the end of
- the century," it quoted one economist as saying.
-
- But the government, still unnerved after frustrated would-be investors
- rioted in Shenzhen in August, stated no new market will open until laws
- governing stock markets are strengthened and will "refuse to open a new
- stock market for at least three years," the China Daily said.
-
- "The need to guarantee the health of the experiment became obvious after the
- Shenzhen stock riot," the newspaper said.
-
- The argument about the future of China's stock market experiment strikes the
- heart of a debate about the speed at which recent calls for capitalist-style
- market reforms can be carried out.
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- Local governments want to make use of new economic freedoms and use stocks
- to raise capital for investment, but have been refused by Beijing for fear
- of chaos if stock markets are not kept under central control.
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- Local governments, like freewheeling Hainan province in south China, that
- tried to set up stock exchanges without government approval were quickly
- reprimanded and had their markets shut down.
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- Foreign experts agreed with government statements that stock laws and
- company regulations must first be strengthened and say running China's
- existing exchanges more efficiently would remove the need for new stock
- markets.
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- "I'm not sure it makes sense for a country to have four or five stock
- markets," said one Beijing-based economist. "Most countries only have one."
-