"Yang Xiaoping, president of BP China, a nominee for the 40 Years of Reform Award, said that since the company entered the Chinese market in 1973, it has participated in and witnessed the achievements of reform and opening-up.

The prospectus also included an announcement of artificial intelligence expert Lu Qi, former chief operating officer of China's internet search giant Baidu Inc, is an independent director nominee at Pinduoduo.

A surprise nominee is Sun Shengdian, chairman of Shenzhen Electronics Group Co Ltd, but no executives from Vanke's second and third-largest shareholders are listed.

As explained by Yang Delong, chief economist at First Seafront Fund, HKSCC was defined as the "nominee holder" by the CSRC in 2015 under the stock connect mechanism between the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses.

Gary Hufbauer, non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Xinhua that "there's no chance" that the IMF will change its assessment (on currency manipulation) unless the United States threatens to withhold support from the European Union's nominee for the managing director, conditioned on a "fresh evaluation" of the IMF's criteria for assessing exchange rates.

In May 2016, "nominee" and "beneficial ownership of securities" were recognized by China Securities Regulatory Commission.