China on Thursday detailed measures to encourage state-owned funds and insurers to buy more shares, aimed at stabilizing the struggling stock market at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to announce tariffs on Chinese imports.

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CHINA has launched a multiyear plan to ensure a continuous inflow of additional long-term funds into the A-share market, with the aim of providing direct support for the steady performance of the world's second-largest stock market,

China is set to slash pay for staff at its top three financial regulators, including the central bank, by about half, as part of a regulatory revamp unveiled in 2023 to bring their salaries in line with other civil servants,

Listed companies in the country distributed dividends totaling 2.4 trillion yuan (US$329 billion) and conducted share buybacks worth 147.6 billion yuan in 2024, both reaching record highs, said Wu Qing,

Starting this year, 30 per cent of the annual insurance premium from new policies will be put into yuan-denominated A shares, regulator Wu Qing said.

China is guiding local mutual funds and insurers to boost their stock purchases in the government’s latest initiative to shore up its ailing equity market as it confronts the threat of higher tariffs.

China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan of investment from state-owned insurers into shares as part of the government's latest efforts to support a struggling stock market.

China will implement the second phase of a pilot program aimed at facilitating insurance funds making long-term stock investments in the first half of 2025, with a program size of no less than 100 billion yuan ($13.7 billion), said Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

State-owned insurers and mutual funds are expected to play a pivotal role in the process, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Finance said in a press briefing.

Starting this year, major Chinese state-owned insurance companies will "strive to" invest 30% of their new premium income in mainland-listed stocks, Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, told reporters. He said this should pump "hundreds of billions of yuan of new long-term funds" into the stock market.

BEIJING -- China's public offering fund sector has maintained a stable development trend in recent years, with further measures set to boost the development of this sector in 2025, an official said at a press conference on Thursday.