SHANGHAI: Chinese mom-and-pop investors are stampeding into the stock market for fear of missing out on the bull run, with more than 1.6 million share trading accounts newly opened in December, doubling from a year earlier, latest data shows.
Mainland euphoria is also spilling across the border, with a record amount of Chinese money gushing into Hong Kong-listed stocks such as Tencent Holdings and Xiaomi Corp via the Stock Connect trading scheme.
The number of Chinese individual stock investors rose 11% on year to 177.4 million at the end of 2020. During each of the past 10 months, more than a million people opened trading accounts, data from China's securities clearing house showed.
China's benchmark CSI300 Index is flirting with record highs as the government seeks to channel household money into stocks to fund innovation, while curbing investment in real estate.
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