On May 21, 2019, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) held the 100th training class for the board secretaries of pre-IPO companies. A total of 224 employees from 210 pre-IPO companies participated in the training. The training is helpful to standardize and professionalize the board secretary industry, and has encouraged many companies to achieve standard development by leveraging the capital market.

On April 12, 2006, SZSE held the 1st training class for board secretaries of pre-IPO companies jointly with the Zhejiang Provincial Financial Office and the CSRC, expanding the target group of board secretary training from listed companies to pre-IPO ones, and extending the reach of our market services and standardization work. The accumulative 100 training classes have served 23,000 persons in total, more than 60% of the participant companies are national high-tech entities, and many of them have successfully entered the capital market.

The focus of board secretary training has always been on improving corporate ability to tackle actual problems. We have designed targeted courses to help companies get well prepared for their IPOs, including financial and legal knowledge relating to listed company information disclosure, standard operation, corporate governance, internal control, investor relationship, restructuring and IPO, and the rights, duties and obligations of board secretaries. This time, we also arranged the participants to visit the trading hall of SZSE and the financial expo center, allowing them to experience our culture of financial innovation on their own.

Cultivating and serving the market is fundamental to our mission as a stock exchange. Training courses for the board secretaries of pre-IPO companies have fostered many professionals who are familiar with finance, laws and rules and can help companies plan IPOs in advance and secure standard operation after IPOs. Next, SZSE will continue to take training services as an important means to support the standard development of companies and serve the real economy. We will spare no pains to improve our training system with a greater variety of training courses and better services to cater to the needs of innovative tech-firms and growth companies. We will focus on the market frontline and promote industrial exchanges to further perform our functions as a stock exchange.