China Issues New Rules on Investing Dividends of SOE Shares for Security Fund

What’s new: China has released new regulations on managing state-held equity in SOEs that has been transferred to the National Social Security Fund, a process that began in 2017 aimed at bolstering the country’s pension system.

The document, jointly issued by the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in early March, details how the dividends from transferred shares can be invested.