The main stock market index in China (SHANGHAI) increased 22 points or 0.66% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from China. China Shanghai Composite Stock Market Index - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Financial Market: Share Prices for China (SPASTT01CNM661N) from Jan 1999 to Jan 2025 about stock market and China.

In 2023, the total market capitalization of China’s stock market totaled 77.3 trillion yuan. The highest annual turnover in the country’s history, 91.6 trillion yuan, was registered in 2021. In the same year, the trade revenue reached 258 trillion yuan. The development of domestic financial markets was a key objective of the Chinese government. Stock markets in mainland China Mainland China has two major stock exchanges. One is the Shanghai Stock Exchange that consists of the Main-Board mMarket and the Star mMarket. The companies listed on the Main-Board were mature and established in their industries, whereas the Star mMarket targets innovative startups. The other big stock exchange was the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It was separated into three boards, the Main-Board, the SME-Board, and ChiNext mMarket. Facilitating innovation One crucial aspect of the financial market development strategy in China was the fostering of innovation. The country had the problem that upcoming, domestic tech-companies preferred to list on stock markets overseas. Therefore, both major bourses established boards that had more lenient listing requirements. For instance, it would allow startups that had not yet turned a profit to gain access to the financial market. These boards were the ChiNext board in Shenzhen and the Star Market in Shanghai.

At yearend 2023, the trading volume of China's stock market had amounted to approximately 17 trillion shares. The statistic shows the trading volume of stock transactions taking place at both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The bourses are the vanguard of China's trading industry.

Prices for China Stock Market Index (CH50) including live quotes, historical charts and news. China Stock Market Index (CH50) was last updated by Trading Economics this March 27 of 2025.

In 2023, China's stock market generated a revenue of over 212 trillion yuan. In 2015, attracted many investors with a sharp increase in stock prices. It culminated in stock market turbulences and significant losses for many market participants. Up to 2020, the stock market generated the highest revenue in that year.

The Beijing Stock Exchange was the latest addition to mainland China's financial industry. In January 2025, the market capitalization reached more than 546 billion yuan. The new stock exchange was created by reforming the National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ) with the intention to provide SMEs who are excluded from the large exchange with a way to obtain capital.

The China Capital Market Exchange Ecosystem is Segmented by Type of Market (Primary Market, Secondary Market), Financial Product (Debt, Equity), and Investors (retail Investors, Institutional Investors). The Report Offers Market Size and Forecasts for the China Capital Market Exchange Ecosystem in Value (USD) for all the Above Segments.

China: Financial markets development: The latest value from 2021 is 0.635 index points, a decline from 0.705 index points in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 0.239 index points, based on data from 158 countries. Historically, the average for China from 1982 to 2021 is 0.448 index points. The minimum value, 0.217 index points, was reached in 1989 while the maximum of 0.705 index points was recorded in 2020.

This statistic shows the number of stock market investors in China from 2015 to 2017. As of the end of 2017, there were around 134 million investors trading in stock exchange markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Key information about China Market Capitalization

• China Market Capitalization accounted for 11,870.548 USD bn in Feb 2025, compared with a percentage of 11,513.605 USD bn in the previous month
• China Market Capitalization is updated monthly, available from Jul 1995 to Feb 2025
• The data reached an all-time high of 14,375.423 USD bn in Dec 2021 and a record low of 40.601 USD bn in Jan 1996

CEIC calculates monthly Market Capitalization as the sum of Market Capitalization of Shanghai Stock Exchange and Market Capitalization of Shenzhen Stock Exchange and converts it into USD. Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange provides Market Capitalization in local currency. The Federal Reserve Board period end market exchange rate is used for currency conversions.

The China Trade Finance Market is Fragmented and Segmented Based On Service Providers (banks, Trade Finance Companies, Insurance Companies, and Other Service Providers) and End Users (exporters, Importers, Traders, and Others). The Report Offers Market Size and Values in (USD) During the Forecast Years for the Above Segments.

China: Stock market capitalization w/o top 10 firms, percent of total market cap: The latest value from 2020 is 63.36 percent, a decline from 86.95 percent in 2019. In comparison, the world average is 47.89 percent, based on data from 28 countries. Historically, the average for China from 2001 to 2020 is 76.42 percent. The minimum value, 60.59 percent, was reached in 2006 while the maximum of 91.03 percent was recorded in 2017.

China Market Capitalization: Shenzhen SE: Stock data was reported at 34,660.935 RMB bn in 25 Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 34,861.107 RMB bn for 24 Mar 2025. China Market Capitalization: Shenzhen SE: Stock data is updated daily, averaging 21,987.112 RMB bn from Sep 2009 (Median) to 25 Mar 2025, with 3764 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 39,964.248 RMB bn in 16 Dec 2021 and a record low of 5,462.439 RMB bn in 05 Jul 2010. China Market Capitalization: Shenzhen SE: Stock data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Financial Market – Table CN.ZA: Shenzhen Stock Exchange: Market Capitalization: Daily.

The data set comes from our working paper "Tweet Sentiments and Stock Market: New Evidence from China", including the stock prices, number of stock-related tweets with different emotions at different days.It shows the closing price of Shanghai composite index (SHCI), volumes of Tweets with different sentiments and two indices based on the Tweets. The first column shows the time, covering the period of 2014/06/03-2014/12/31. The second column is the SHCI of each trading day. The 3rd-8th columns are the numbers of Tweets with different sentiments, including anger, joyful, disgust, fear and sadness. The 9th column is the number of Tweets with negative sentiments. The last two columns show the indices of Agreement and Bullishness.Please cite the paper: Yingying Xu, Zhixin Liu, Jichang Zhao and Chiwei Su. Weibo sentiments and stock return: A time- frequency view. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0180723, 2017.

Graph and download economic data for Stock Market Capitalization to GDP for China (DDDM01CNA156NWDB) from 2003 to 2020 about market cap, stock market, China, capital, and GDP.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 (SSE 50) had an index value of 2,326.17 by December of 2023. 2018, was the worst-performing year in the last decade. Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange indices both lost more than 24 percent in 2018 which was the result of the trade war between China and the United States. However, despite no tangible progress between the two nations Chinese stocks have recovered since then and continued to perform well despite the economic impact of COVID-19. The index summarized the performance of the 50 biggest companies traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

In 2023, the number of shares issued at China's stock markets amounted to over seven trillion. As the country's financial system developed, the number of issued shares increased as well. The number of shares had more than doubled since 2013.

Data consists of 10 Asian countries, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines plus U.S., total 11 countries. Monthly stock market index and nominal exchange rates (end of the month in local currency terms) are collected from Datastream from January 1990 to December 2013 total 288 monthly observations. Each country data in in a separate workbook tab. There are 10 country workbook tab plus US data in the 11th tab. 12th tab workbook describes data for each country. The last tab workbook combines all country data into one single pooled data file.

China Proportion of Trading Volume: Shanghai SE: Institution data was reported at 14.760 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.210 % for 2016. China Proportion of Trading Volume: Shanghai SE: Institution data is updated yearly, averaging 12.830 % from Dec 2007 (Median) to 2017, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17.120 % in 2012 and a record low of 10.370 % in 2007. China Proportion of Trading Volume: Shanghai SE: Institution data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Shanghai Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Financial Market – Table CN.ZA: Shanghai Stock Exchange: Investor’s Trading and Structure.