China's recent government CNY20 billion or USD3.3 billion bond sale recorded a 5.3% yield, which was the highest obtained by the mainland since selling debt since 2009.

Germany-based international car producer Daimler announced a new strategic cooperation agreement with China-based partner automobile seller BAIC Motor that would be signed by both parties on Tuesday.

Private equity company RRJ Capital said it has already began to market its Asian real estate fund which will focus on China. RRJ Capital is looking to raise USD 1 billion for the fund.

Yuan Zhide, a Shanghai Venture Capital Senior Executive, said the Chinese central government's ban on initial public offerings needed to be removed if the country's venture capital industry is to be revived.

Private equity firm Boyu Capital has experienced the pressure that the delay in the long-awaited initial public offering of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has caused.

Although China's support to overhaul the current system of registration-based stock issuance, analysts said it might take a long time for the new system to be adopted.

Chinese institutional investors' outbound investment in real estate will continue to increase next year as buying opportunities emerge in the United States and Europe and international financial institutions dispose of their property assets.

Investors remain inclined to take markets higher in the absence of anything that would suggest equities should fall. The market seems to have hit a stage where strong data helps and weak data affirms the Fed's intentions to keep policy accommodative, which also helps stocks.

Top leaders of the Chinese government released its plans to make major reforms in the economy and social systems, and vowed that such reforms would make decisive results by 2020.

Peer-to-peer financial lending platform Ppdai received a significant investment worth USD35 million from the financial arm of Alibaba Group, said sources who were familiar with the transaction.