Shanghai Municipal Committee Financial Office Zhou Xiaoquan: Exploring Pilot Programs for Cross-Border Offshore Mergers and Acquisitions

People’s Finance News, March 15 — On March 15, at the inauguration ceremony of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Advanced Finance Shanghai International M&A Research Center and the release of the “Shanghai M&A Yearbook (2026),” Zhou Xiaquan, Executive Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Financial Office, stated that Shanghai will accelerate its gathering efforts, attract more tech companies and M&A funds to establish themselves in Shanghai, encourage M&A transactions around key industrial chains, and continuously strengthen its clustering and radiation functions. The city will also play a demonstration role, enhance the service level of M&A clusters, explore cross-border offshore M&A pilot models, and use point-based initiatives to further improve financial services for the real economy and technological innovation. Additionally, efforts will be made to strengthen support services, coordinate policies, industries, capital, technology, and regulation, and explore the construction of M&A policy, transaction, and valuation databases. The goal is to fully leverage third-party market-oriented service platforms to jointly shape an M&A ecosystem led by industry logic, focused on value creation, and characterized by collaboration and mutual benefit among all parties.