From:ChinaDaily | 2021-04-07 09:24 The merger of the main and small and medium-sized enterprise boards at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange will enable companies to better leverage the capital market for growth and improve the overall efficiency, said experts. The China Securities Regulatory Commission had on Feb 5 given the green light to the Shenzhen bourse's request to merge the main board and the SME board to optimize the structure of the SSE's equity market. Following the merger on Tuesday, the operating mode for supervision and business rules for the two boards were unified. The listing requirements, investment threshold and trading mechanism remain unchanged, while stock codes and abbreviations have been merged, said Pi Liuyi, deputy director of the CSRC's department of market supervision.