China regulator to improve REIT mechanism

China’s securities regulator said it will work with other government departments to further improve the mechanism on infrastructure real-estate investment trusts (REITs), as part of efforts to better support the real economy, Xinhua reported.

Earlier in April 2020, China initiated a pilot scheme on infrastructure REITs to deepen supply-side structural reform in the financial sector and enhance the capital market’s capabilities.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.