An investor monitors stock prices on his phone at a stock brokerage in Shanghai. [Photo by Lyu Liang/For China Daily]
BEIJING - China's National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ), also known as the "new third board," has seen a turnover of 101.16 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) so far this year.
From Monday to Friday, its turnover reached 3.15 billion yuan. As of Friday, 8,384 companies were listed on the NEEQ.
Launched in 2013, the NEEQ intends to offer small and medium-sized enterprises a new financing channel with low costs and simple listing procedures.
China has outlined a series of reforms to better orient the NEEQ to the needs and features of small enterprises, and support the quality growth of the real economy.
