 the shanghai stock exchange (sse) (), is a stock exchange that is based in the city of shanghai, china. it is one of the two stock exchanges operating independently in the people's republic of china, the other is the shenzhen stock exchange. shanghai stock exchange is the world's 6th largest stock market by market capitalization at us$2.3 trillion as of dec 2011. unlike the hong kong stock exchange, the shanghai stock exchange is still not entirely open to foreign investorschina briefing - foreigners now allowed to list on shanghai stock exchange - retrieved on january 21, 2009. due to tight capital account controls exercised by the chinese mainland authorities.international herald tribune - china further loosens its capital controls - retrieved on january 21, 2009. the current exchange was re-established on november 26, 1990 and was in operation on december 19 of the same year. it is a non-profit organization directly administered by the china securities regulatory commission (csrc). the shanghai clearing house provides security for financial market participants, and efficient clearing services development purposes, but also conductive to international peers inter-agency communication and cooperation. it provides central counterparty clearing of foreign currency in the interbank market, including clearing, settlement, margin management, collateral management, information services, consulting services, and related management department under other business. ==history== the formation of the international settlement (foreign concession areas) in shanghai was the result of the treaty of nanking of 1842 (which ended the first opium war) and subsequent agreements between the chinese and foreign governments were crucial to the development of foreign trade in china and of the foreign community in shanghai. the market for securities trading in shanghai begins in the late 1860s. the first shares list appeared in ju
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