Retail Investors’ Share of Chinese Stock Markets Falls Below 70%

What’s new: Retail investors’ dominance of China’s stock market is continuing to shrink as institutional investors grow more active and individual players embrace concepts including value, long-term and rational investing, a top market regulator said.

In 2021, retail investors’ equity trading value dropped below 70% of total market value for the first time, compared with about 10% in the U.S., Li Chao, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), said Thursday at a press conference.