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Threshold for recognition as material asset reorganizations raised.

Criteria for board resolution on material asset reorganization further detailed.

On April 18 2008, the CSRC promulgated the Administrative Rules on Material Asset Restructuring of Listed Companies. This represents another major move to improve the basic system of the domestic stock market in China, and signifies that the M&A and restructuring of China's listed companies has entered a new era of standardization and development.