The China Securities Regulatory Commission has recently approved the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange to carry out PTA, methanol and rapeseed meal options trading, approved the Dalian Commodity Exchange to carry out iron ore options trading, and approved the Shanghai Futures Exchange to carry out gold options trading. The PTA and methanol option contracts will be officially listed on December 16, 2019. The rapeseed meal option contract will be officially listed on January 16, 2020. The iron ore options contract will be officially listed on December 9, 2019. The gold option contract will be officially listed on December 20, 2019.
In China, although the domestic commodity option does not have a very long history, it has developed rapidly in recent years. On March 31, 2017, the first domestic commodity option soybean meal option was listed in DCE. Subsequently, white sugar options, copper options, natural rubber options, cotton options and corn options have been listed in succession. There have been 6 listed commodity option varieties currently, and 5 newly approved commodity option varieties, and domestic commodity options will be expanded substantially and there will be 11 commodity option varieties in total.