Shanghai municipal government issued its 15th Five-Year Plan for
service-industry development, targeting measures to boost financial-market
infrastructure and internationalization. Key items: expand CIPS global network
coverage and support an interbank market trade-reporting repository; deepen
registration-based stock issuance reform and improve routine delisting
mechanisms; develop Belt and Road bonds, panda bonds and Yulan bonds; promote
futures and derivatives product innovation and pilot RMB FX futures trading;
advance a trust-asset registration pilot; deepen the Lingang offshore
trade-finance reform pilot; strengthen international reinsurance and global
asset-management center functions; raise the international influence of Shanghai
prices and indices and key commodity and energy spot/futures; and expand
free-trade account functions and applications.