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The offshore market is a special part of China’s capital market. Due to limited convertibility of Chinese currency, domestic securities denominated and priced in foreign jurisdictions using fully convertible foreign currencies have long been the most recognizable Chinese assets in global capital markets.

Amid China’s dramatic economic growth over the past few decades, both supply and demand of Chinese assets surged. The offshore market allows Chinese companies to raise equity and debt capital overseas and enables international investors to easily gain exposure to China's exceptional growth potential.

China’s offshore market exhibits both greater volatility and attractive returns. Investing in China does bring different risks and greater unpredictability, as illustrated by authorities’ crackdowns on offshore-traded tech enterprises and the wave of defaults of offshore-issued property bonds.

In the sixth and last episode of “China Finance With a Cup of Tea,” Caixin invited Ms. Christina Bao, the Co-Head of Sales & Marketing at HKEX, and Mr. Kinger Lau, Chief China Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs, to share their insights on what international investors should know about and how to navigate China’s offshore market.

Biden says he’s considering rolling back Trump-era duties to fight inflation; registry shows safety trial of BioNTech-Fosun MRNA vaccine in China concluded in January; and Covid testing firm gets probed after false positives.

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Coffee giant says it remains committed to U.S. markets; Xi and Macron discuss Ukraine crisis in phone call; and key auto parts supplier suspends Shanghai operations as Covid threat continues to loom.

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China’s private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) industry has been a story of burgeoning growth mixed with market correction. Although China’s PE/VC market only started in the early 2000s, investors’ appetite has made it the second largest in the world. In 2021 alone, China-focused PE/VC funds raised an aggregate of $72bn, and the country’s total PE/VC AUM has reached $1.92tn by the year end.

Paying attention to China’s long-term and top-level policy decisions is always the key for general partners and venture capitalists to invest as well as manage their risks in China. Seizing the country’s transition from export-dependent to innovation-powered, and investing advanced technologies can be rewarded. Meanwhile, ignoring signs and messages from the government might be done at investors’ peril, as regulatory shake-ups last year showed.

Investing in China’s PE/VC market becomes more complicated due to geopolitical, regulatory and other concerns, but foreign especially Asian investors remain highly committed to China. The fundamental drivers behind the enthusiasm lie in the country’s ever rising consumption power and unswerving focus on innovation. 

In the fifth episode of “China Finance with a Cup of Tea,” Caixin invited Ms. Anna FANG, CEO and Founding Partner of ZhenFund, an early-stage venture capital firm, and Mr. LIAO Ming, Founding Partner of Prospect Avenue Capital (PAC), a growth capital fund, to share their insights on the private equity and venture capital industry in China and what international investors can do to navigate this market.

Many Chinese high school students at risk of losing out on overseas college places; India puts seizure of Xiaomi assets on hold; and livestream firms told to block minors from tipping.

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Plus, policymakers double down on dynamic ‘zero-Covid’ policy; foreign companies feel the pinch from Covid lockdowns; and the Asian Games get postponed.


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Property giant given time to avoid onshore default; Asian Games get postponed; and China’s infrastructure and industrial sectors get a major credit injection.

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China National Knowledge Infrastructure fomented widespread anger among the academic community for suspected copyright abuses. Then one retired professor decided to take a stand

Read the article by Ge Xinghang, Wa An and Bruce Shen: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-04-12/in-depth-how-chinas-biggest-academic-library-got-shrouded-in-copyright-disputes-101869219.html

Narrated by Jenny McKenzie.

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Seniors, particularly those with health conditions, say they would prefer to self-isolate at home rather than at facilities with poor conditions.

Read the article by Xu Wen and Celine Yang: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-04-20/shanghais-elderly-covid-patients-have-a-hard-time-coping-with-centralized-quarantine-101873560.html

Narrated by Nandini Venkata.

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Beijing vows to fight any speech that questions its virus strategy; European businesses cut China revenue projections for 2022; and U.S. regulators take aim at JD.com and Bilibili.

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