Cover reporter Liu Xuqiang
On the evening of February 25, China Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd. announced data that since the number of A. share investors exceeded 150 million in March 2019, the number of A. share investors has continued to grow, reaching 200,008,700 by February 25, 2022.
China Clearing announced that the number of A-share investors exceeded 200 million
Looking back on history, it is found that since April 2015, China Clearing started to announce the number of investors at the end of the period month by month. At the end of April 2015, the number of A-share investors was 81.85 million. At the end of January 2016, the number of investors exceeded 100 million. In March 2019, the number of investors exceeded 150 million.
The reporter noticed that in recent years, A-share investors have been in high spirits in entering the market. In 2021, there will be 19.6336 million new investors in the A-share market, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%, a new high since 2016. At the end of February of that year, the number of investors exceeded 180 million, exceeded 190 million at the end of July of that year, and reached 197 million at the end of December of that year.
In addition, in the past two years, the number of new A-share investors in a single month has repeatedly exceeded one million. Judging from the situation in the past three months alone, the number of new A-share investors in a single month exceeded 1.3 million.
It is understood that the growth of new investors in A shares is not always stable and upward. In January this year, there were 1.3243 million new investors in the two cities, and the cumulative number of investors was 198.7328 million, which was only one step away from 200 million. However, new investors in January fell by 3.6% month-on-month and 36.77% year-on-year, and the decline also hit a new high in the past six years.
It is worth mentioning that the accumulation of the second “100 million investors” was a full 20 years faster than the first. Since the establishment of my country’s Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges in 1990, A-shares began to be traded. By January 2016, the number of A-share investors exceeded 100 million, which took 26 years. It took only 6 years to accumulate the second “100 million investors”.
According to securities dealers, the rapid growth in the number of investors is related to the accumulation of residents’ wealth, the development of the capital market and the improvement of the population’s education level.
As the number of investors increases, investor protection becomes more important. The relevant person in charge of the CSRC has stated on many occasions that it is necessary to strengthen the protection of investors’ rights and interests and enhance the sense of gain of the majority of investors. In addition, when the capital market develops the financing side, it should also pay attention to the construction of the investment side to promote the balanced and coordinated development of investment and financing.Return to Sohu, see more
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