The China Securities Regulatory Commission and eight other departments announced that, after two years of concentrated efforts, measures to eliminate illegal cross-border business activities include prohibiting overseas institutions from conducting marketing and solicitation activities related to securities, futures, and fund businesses in China, as well as providing related account opening, transaction order processing, fund transfer, and other trading services. Domestic entities are also prohibited from assisting overseas institutions in illegally conducting marketing and trading services, and from providing them with website and trading software development and operation, customer service, etc.