China aims for IPO adrenaline to fund strategic chip makers

Shanghai's new STAR market part of efforts to encourage investment in tech startups

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Shanghai's STAR market was created to channel funds from Chinese investors into smaller, higher-risk startups. (Source photo by Getty Images)

CHENG TING-FANG and COCO LIU, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI/HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China is accelerating the public listings of chip companies on Shanghai’s more loosely regulated STAR stock market in the latest initiative by Beijing to counter U.S. technology sanctions and speed the development of its high-priority semiconductor industry.

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