Nearly 70% of NEEQ-listed enterprises earn profits in 2020 Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-08 15:12 An investor checks stock prices at a brokerage in Fuyang, Anhui province. [Photo by Lu Qijian/For China Daily] BEIJING - About 70 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises listed on China's National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ), also known as the "new third board", earned profits in 2020. A total of 6,966 companies that have released annual reports by the end of April registered net profits of 60.82 billion yuan ($9.4 billion) in 2020, up 7.23 percent from a year earlier. Among the profit makers, companies in strategic emerging industries saw their net profits surge 55.3 percent year-on-year.