(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-01-18 16:19

China had a total of 72.6 million stock market investment accounts as of the end of last year, the Standard reported.

According to the statistics by China Securities Depository and Clearing Ltd, 72.3 million of the total were individual accounts. New A-share investor accounts tripled to 2.76 million last year as the market made strong gains over the year.