Shenzhen Stock Exchange


The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in the city of Shenzhen, in the People's Republic of China. It is one of two stock exchanges operating independently in Mainland China, the other being the larger Shanghai Stock Exchange. It is situated in the Futian district of Shenzhen. With a market capitalization of its listed companies around US$2.285 trillion in 2015, it is the 8th largest stock exchange in the world, and 4th largest in East Asia and Asia.

History

Many of the companies within this market are subsidiaries of companies in which the Chinese government maintains controlling interest.

Hours

The exchange has pre-market sessions from 09:15am to 09:25am and normal trading sessions from 09:30am to 12:30pm and 1:00pm to 3:00pm China Standard Time on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

ChiNext

The exchange opened the ChiNext board,
a NASDAQ-type exchange for high-growth, high-tech start-ups, on October 23, 2009.

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Building

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange building is a skyscraper with a height of and 49 floors. Its construction started in 2008 and was finished in 2013.The building was designed by Rem Koolhaas's firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The building is located at 2012 Shennan Blvd., Futian District. With an area of 200,000 square metres, five high speed elevators and a futuristic design, the partners involved in the design and construction of this sky scraper included Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten, Ellen van Loon and Shohei Shigematsu and construction by The Second Construction Co., Ltd of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation.

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