"Alongside introducing blue-chip Western works to Asia, we have been actively promoting Asian artists and their works to Western collectors.

“除了将西方蓝筹作品引进亚洲，我们还积极向西方收藏家推介亚洲艺术家及其作品。

Tmall Global, the cross-border e-commerce platform owned by tech heavyweight Alibaba, has kicked off its cross-border cold chain delivery service for Black Friday promotion, and will provide more than 2,500 blue-chip brands from more than 70 countries around the world.

It allows international investors to invest in Chinese blue-chip companies, while Chinese companies have access to a channel to diversify their overseas financing, Chen said.

Kelvin Chan and Adam Foster, the team behind EastWest, both have extensive experience with both SMEs and blue-chip brands.

Naturally, the company's clothes sit comfortably next to premium blue-chip lines such as Nike Lab.

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.3 percent, to 3,752.57 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.1 percent, to 3,291.03 points.

The blue-chip brand reported sales of 7.04 billion euros ($7.9 billion) in the first quarter of this year, according to the company's website, with the Asia Pacific region, which includes China, posting 1.5 billion euros.

"The run-up to Spring Festival has been a traditional peak consumption season in China, and consumer stocks, especially leading white-horse (blue-chip) stocks, will likely surge," said Yang Delong, chief economist at the Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based First Seafront Fund.

As a constituent of the Frankfurt-based blue-chip index DAX, the Stuttgart-based Daimler's market value reached currently over 75 billion euros, as the information of arriving investment from China pushed up its share price.

The earnings per share of the blue-chip CSI 300 index is likely to be 8 percent in 2024, Meng said.

In September, the National Financial Regulatory Administration rolled out measures that experts said would encourage insurance companies to invest in blue-chip and high-tech stocks.

"Consumption data for the combined holiday is likely to beat expectations, potentially providing a fillip to A-share blue-chip consumer stocks and triggering a market rebound," said Yang Delong, chief economist of First Seafront Fund.

China has rolled out new measures to encourage insurance companies to invest in blue-chip and high-tech stocks, as part of its broader efforts to boost the capital market and the real economy.

A large number of blue-chip stocks, backed by State-owned entities, are listed on the A-share market.

For instance, large blue-chip SOEs can facilitate this process with dividend incentives for the next five to 10 years that have higher allocation ratios toward its shareholders, where the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council also plays a big role in regulation and supervision.

First, it benefits the valuation of blue-chip SOEs themselves.

Last, as blue-chip SOEs are often emblematic of traditional and asset-intensive industries, their unrestrained expansion merits vigilance to ensure efficient economic transformation and upgrade.

This is in line with the characteristics of the A-share main board, which mainly accommodates large-cap blue-chip companies, he said.

The main board will mainly serve the flotation of large-cap blue-chip companies.

Now it will also apply to the main boards in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the homes of China's blue-chip stocks, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement.

With a deepened understanding of the China market, foreign institutional investors started checking some companies listed on China's Nasdaq-style STAR Market and the Growth Enterprise Market that represent the future of Chinese technologies, instead of simply focusing on blue-chip stocks.

They are based on the mega-cap SSE50 Index, the blue-chip CSI300 Index and the CSI500 Index that tracks mid to small-cap A-share companies.

We expect to see more blue-chip Chinese companies across various sectors listing in Europe," he said.

Blue-chip companies will attract the most attention from investors.

"Some blue-chip companies, including State-owned enterprises, are trading at extremely low valuations in both A-share and Hong Kong markets.

Blue-chip companies with low market valuation, especially financial companies, are good investment targets, he said.

Despite quality names in such sectors as liquor having been pushed up, some blue-chip stocks in banking, property, industrials and manufacturing are still undervalued, he added.

The blue-chip focused CSI 300 Index is projected to finish the year at around 5500 points.

The stock-index contracts, agreements to buy or sell the blue-chip Hushen 300 Index at a preset value on an agreed date, are designed to allow investors to bet on and profit from either gains or declines in the market.

Dong Dengxin, director of the Finance and Securities Institute at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, said the amendments were necessary as some of the listed blue-chip companies wanted to reserve profits for business expansion, rather than for dividend payouts.

The blue-chip index took another hit when the price of crude oil plummeted, further underscoring doubts about future economic activity.

It was the fourth losing day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and followed Monday's rout, when the blue-chip index lost more than 1,000 points.

The blue-chip index had fallen as much as 961 points intraday.

On Thursday, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.48 percent to 2937.36 points, while the blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.82 percent to 3851.07 points.

Blue-chip A-share companies also came in with stronger quarterly performances.

"China's blue-chip CSI300 index had risen 22.2 percent to 3,678.39 points from the start of this year to Wednesday, and Morgan Stanley has raised this year's target for the index to 4,300 points.

Some other fund managers chose to sell blue-chip shares to augment their liquidity positions for fund redemptions.

Within this context, the opportunity to buy blue-chip London-listed stocks via the proposed connect are exactly what many Chinese investors have been looking for.

Blue-chip companies listed in London for at least three years are able to issue CDRs provided their market value is at least 20 billion yuan.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange said in an announcement released on its official website on Friday that domestic blue-chip companies listed on the Shanghai bourse will be encouraged to list in London.

China will encourage domestic blue-chip companies already listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to also list in London, while promoting the trading of shares of London-listed firms, according to an announcement by the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday.

The MSCI inclusion's first phase was in May, which brought in additional investments mainly focused on blue-chip companies.

Zhang Kun, managing director of E Funds, said up to 80 percent of the newly issued fund products will focus on A-share blue-chip companies, which offer stronger safety margin and more certainty on growth, thus promising long-term positive returns on investments.

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.9 percent to 3525.75 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index closed up 1.1 percent at 2859.54 points, aided by strength in financials and industrial stocks.

The standards for listing D-shares position the CEINEX D-Share Market as the top-level securities board for Chinese blue-chip companies in Europe and serve to complement the regulatory framework of the German market, according to the announcement.

The Shanghai Composite Index on Monday touched its lowest level since last May before closing down 0.47 percent at 3,052.78 points, while the blue-chip CSI300 index was unchanged at 3,779.98 points.

The standards set a narrow criteria for the first batch of D-share issuers, limiting it to financially sound blue-chip companies which already have A-share listings.

Analysts from Beijing-based China International Capital Corporation Limited, or CICC, wrote in a note that the northbound investment - funds coming from Hong Kong into the Chinese mainland bourses - has mainly targeted blue-chip A shares since March-end.

Wang Hanfeng, chief strategist at CICC, attributed the northbound investment to overseas investors' confidence in the long-term performance of the blue-chip companies, given their current share prices.

"Based on the past experience, (you could say) overseas investors have always seized the right timing to invest in blue-chip companies," he said.

The imminent inclusion of A shares in the MSCI index has grown into a catalyst for the rebound of blue-chip companies, he said.

As the blue-chip companies' share prices have reached a reasonable level, they will be more attractive to overseas investors, in terms of their market cap and competitiveness," he said.

The CSI300 Index, which tracks blue-chip stocks, saw an even steeper fall of 4.27 percent.

All 30 components of the blue-chip Dow finished negative.

The blue-chip CSI300 index was up 0.07 percent, with the financial sector sub-index higher by 1.77 percent, the consumer staples sector down 3.77 percent, the real estate index up 0.30 percent and healthcare sub-index down 1.39 percent.

In addition, Sjuggerud said he preferred blue-chip A-shares to smaller caps in Chinese stock market, adding that he believes the money will flow into blue-chip A-shares and expects a significant outperformance of blue-chips over smaller caps.

The blue-chip CSI 300 Index rose 1.41 percent, driven by the financial sector sub-index and real estate sub-index.

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 1.2 percent to 3,882.21 points.

cn]The CSI 300 Green Leading Stock Index, sampled from listed companies covered by the blue-chip CSI 300 Index, measures a company's green development strategies, green supply chains, pollution discharge, energy and resources consumption, green income, as well as its negative environment behaviors.

Bolstered by strong economic fundamentals, the mainland's blue-chip CSI 300 Index has risen from a level slightly above 3,300 in May to 3829.87 at the close of trade on Thursday.

The blue-chip CSI300 index jumped 1.6 percent to 3,795.75.

The blue-chip CSI300 Index edged higher by 1.3 percent to 3,694.68, while the Shanghai Composite Index increased by 0.9 percent to 3,237.36 points.

From June 21 to July 20, China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index increased 2.81 percent to 3,244.86 as of Thursday closing, while the blue-chip CSI 300 Index rose 4.46 percent to 3,747.88.

China's blue-chip SSE50 Index, also called China's "Nifty Fifty", increased 0.32 percent to 2631.41 on Monday, which was the highest level in almost two years.

The blue-chip CSI 300 index rose 0.1 percent to 3,590.34 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.3 percent to 3,147.45 points.

Yang said as the social security fund invests primarily in blue-chip stocks and there is rally in blue-chip stocks this year, the fund's investment profit will be better, compared to last year.