Shareholding increases in China's capital

China says that more than one million people in the capital, Beijing, have invested in the stock market.

Beijing does not have a stock market of its own, but the official Xinhua news agency says that close to ten percent of the city's population are registered investors.

This marks an eighty percent increase in the number of investors over the last year.

The Communist Party newspaper, The Peoples Daily, has launched a new market section to appeal to China's estimated thirty-two million shareholders.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service