The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is formulating specific short-term trading systems for foreign investors to facilitate their investment in the A-share market, as China steps up effort in expanding opening of its capital market, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Sunday.

Chinese Depository Receipts (CDRs) are certificates issued by mainland China custodian banks, representing the listed shares that are deposited by foreign listed companies (Hong Kong companies included) in their local depositary banks. CDRs are listed on the A-share market in mainland China and are traded and settled in RMB by mainland China investors.

A-shares, or RMB-denominated common shares, refer to ordinary shares issued by companies incorporate

the northbound leg of the connect program covers a wide range of ETFs in the A-share market, including biomedicine, chipmaking and carbon neutrality

The roughly 70 billion yuan ($10 billion) of foreign capital that has flowed into the A-share market this month marks the biggest such monthly net inflow this year

China's A-share listed firms proposed cash dividends of over 1.5 trillion yuan ($225 billion), up 1.4 percent and 13.6 percent compared with actual dividends paid in 2020 and 2019, respectively

Among 42 A-share listed Chinese banks, 10 lenders cut the allowance for loan impairment losses to nonperforming loans in the first quarter

Many A-share listed banks in China recorded a decline in their nonperforming loan ratios last year amid stepped-up efforts in financial risk mitigation and the disposal of nonperforming assets.