Investor Protection and Education

Foster mature and rational investors is the fundamental of the health development of China’s gold market, it is also the social responsibility of SGE during the past decades. Under the guidance of the People’s Bank of China, SGE has been paying very high attention to the investor’s interest protection and market risk education. SGE has formulated the “Interim Measures for the Management of Customer Appropriateness” for its market investors, edited and printed several brochures to enhance the market awareness of its investors including: “Market Entrance Guide of SGE”, “Question & Answer of SGE Market”, and “Booklet of Investor Education”. Meanwhile, SGE also holds lectures and classes of “enter the corporation, enter the university and enter the community” on year basis to spread the financial knowledge on a continuous and popularize manner, and guide for rational investment.

For the purpose of keep close relationship with its investors from all kinds of education and activity campaign, Shanghai Gold Exchange launched the volunteer activity – “The Big Hall Lecture of Gold”, formed “Lecturer Team for Investor’s Education Program”, initiated “The SGE Open Day” for investors to come and visit SGE, and “The On Campus Lecture Sharing Project” for college students to get a brief knowledge of gold and its relatives. Besides these education program hosted by SGE, we also organize joint lecture with government departments to train and foster qualified investors for the domestic gold market including, departments of State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC Consumer Protection Bureau, China Gold Association, the provincial branch of People’s Bank of China, and Financial Offices in different provinces.

The previous total customer volume of SGE (Institutional and Individual Customer)


On July 2014, “the Big Hall Lecture”, the first volunteer activity of SGE’s investor education project was launched by SGE at China Financial Information Center.

On October 2014, “the SGE Open Day”, where investors and SGE department managers meet face to face.

On May 2017, “The On Campus Lecture Sharing Project”, the investor education project which aimed at college students was launched and the first lecture was held in Tong Ji University.

On May 23rd, 2014, Chairman of SGE was invited to deliver a speech of “The Gold Market Development and Gold Investment” on the second Shanghai Financial Big Hall Lecture.

Introduced the National Gold Trading Practice Qualification Examination

The “Trader’s Qualification Examination of SGE” was started since the establishment of Shanghai Gold Exchange, the training program contains lecture part and in class exam. This program has been contributed to the business promotion and market cultivation, it has trained 83,000 qualified trader in 10 years for the market.
With the steadily development of the business and for the purpose of enhance the working efficiency of the exam to play the important role in market cultivation, SGE upgraded the exam with the name of National Gold Trading Practice Qualification Examination in April 2016. This new exam is oriented to all ambitious candidates. The exam can be applied in over 30 provinces in China, candidates can take the online exam simultaneously in over 1000 exam places countrywide. SGE wrote and edited “The Fundamental Knowledge of Gold Trading and Transaction Practice” as supporting material for the exam. Also, SGE issued “The Administrative Measures of Certification and Management of a Training Institution”, open to public to select the certified training institution. The new exam has been introduced to the market for one year with 58,000 people registered for exam, which makes it a key carrier of gold market popularization and risk education strengthen.

Holds the Global Gold Market Summit Forum

The Global Gold Market Summit Forum,which is held every year around April 19th,is an international gold market summit that hosted and organized by SGE. With its first launching in 2016, the forum has received extensive attention in the global gold market. The forum creates an exchange platform for different corporation from global gold market and specialist in the industry. The forum helps to accelerate the communication among different gold markets, moreover, it has a positive meaning to share global reforming opportunity and to promote the collaboration and cross-market development in future.