At the 2026 Shanghai Derivatives Market Forum, China Financial Futures Exchange
(CFFEX) chair He Qingwen said CFFEX will, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period,
implement national strategy and capital-market priorities with a focus on
enhancing market stability, improving front-line regulatory practices,
diversifying participant structure, completing its product suite and steadily
expanding external opening. He said the financial futures market has operated
smoothly, serving risk-management needs: index futures and options saw rising
open interest in volatile periods and helped spur cross-period and spot-market
investors’ contrarian net buying of equities; bond futures have helped investors
manage interest-rate volatility and supported central and local government bond
issuance.
