Foreign Investment China's stock markets have opened faster to foreign investors than the markets in Tawain and South Korea. China is also moving quickly to embrace international accounting standards to ensure fiscal transparancy in new companies that want to list shares. China's stock markets are expected to grow many times over. The outlook for Shanghai appears best. Unlike the stock market of Hong Kong, or Tokyo for that matter, Shanghai's economic fundamentals are much better.
Shanghai has a very large and diversified industrial economy.
Much of the market values in Hong Kong and Tokyo are based on property stocks and the extremely expensive property markets in those cities. Many long term forecasts predict that Shanghai could become the largest stock exchange in Asia in the future. B Shares Shares denominated in rinminbi and payable in foreign currency are designated for foreign investors. H Shares Shares floated and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . There are numerous indexes used in China's stock market.