Shanghai municipal government office issued a notice on deepening the city’s
global asset‑management centre, calling for faster product innovation. It
instructs accelerating launch of LNG futures and options, completing R&D
preparation for power and computing‑power futures, steadily expanding the
shipping‑index futures lineup, and developing additional futures that represent
new productive forces. The notice calls for promoting listing of Sci‑Tech
Innovation 50, SZSE 100 and ChiNext index futures and options and government
bond options; expanding standardized interest‑rate derivative underlyings and
tenors and broadening equity‑ and rate‑derivative offerings; and widening FX
trading currencies and product series, exploring a pilot for RMB FX futures
trading and enhancing FX hedging tools.