It has been planned for several years. Now it will come real soon. Informations show that most preparations have been done and it is waiting for a good situation to come out.

The HSBC(The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited) and BEA(Bank of East Asia), and so on companies have already been reported to plan to go on the market. I believe many companies around Aisa(including Middle East), Africa, and East Europe, will start to consider and draft soon. I remeber a report about a Russian company trying to apply before. But they couldn't. Now they got a chance. What a future will it be looked like? Will in recent few years may we see many of the world's most important resource companies, manufacturers, banks go on the Shanghai Stock Exchange board. A renaissance age of the eastern world upcomes?

And for investors, although right now aliens and international institutional investors are permitted to invest in the stock market of mainland China, the scale of them is still limited. Right now the whole QFII(qualified foreign institutional investors)'s scale is less than 21 billion USD. And for individual foreigners, although they can already start their B type securities exchange accounts now here in China, the choices for them is limited. Only 106 companies could be invested and the whole scale of them now is around 6 billion USD. This is going to change. Nobody would stand back at then, from the oppotunities of mining some of the world's resourceful, potential areas. See it.