N-Shares refers to Chinese companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ

NASDAQ

The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

, or the American Stock Exchange

American Stock Exchange

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. The term stands for New York. They may or may not be incorporated in China, but they have their main business operations in mainland China. Most of them are incorporated in Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

, the Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...

, the British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands

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, Nevada or Delaware. If they have been incorporated in mainland China, they trade as ADRs

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of H Shares

H share

H shares In mainland China, the shares are referred to as H股 H shares, whilst in Hong Kong, they are called 恒生中國企業指數, literally Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. refers to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...

. If they have been incorporated in Hong Kong, they trade as ADRs

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of Red chip

Red chip

Red chips stocks are the stocks of mainland China companies incorporated outside mainland China and listed in Hong Kong. The actual business is based in mainland China and controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the central, provincial or municipal governments of the Peoples' Republic of China...

s. If they have been incorporated in Nevada, Delaware or Florida, they might have originated as reverse mergers

Reverse takeover

A reverse takeover or reverse merger is the acquisition of a public company by a private company so that the private company can bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public...

. Most N-Shares are the American exchange equivalent of P-Chips

P chip

The term P chip refers to Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange which are incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands with operations in mainland China, and are run by private sector Chinese businessmen...

.

However, the term N-Shares may only refer to private sector Chinese companies incorporated outside China, which excludes ADRs

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of H Shares

H share

H shares In mainland China, the shares are referred to as H股 H shares, whilst in Hong Kong, they are called 恒生中國企業指數, literally Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. refers to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...

 or Red chip

Red chip

Red chips stocks are the stocks of mainland China companies incorporated outside mainland China and listed in Hong Kong. The actual business is based in mainland China and controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the central, provincial or municipal governments of the Peoples' Republic of China...

s.

As of December 2010, the SEC is investigating frauds by publicly traded Chinese companies.

N-Shares listed on the NYSE

Acorn International, Inc. (Cayman Islands)

Agria Corp (Cayman Islands)

Aluminum Corp Of China Ltd (China) (ADR

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of H share

H share

H shares In mainland China, the shares are referred to as H股 H shares, whilst in Hong Kong, they are called 恒生中國企業指數, literally Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. refers to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...

)

American Oriental Bioengineering Inc. (Nevada)

American Dairy Inc. (aka Feihe International) (Utah)

China Digital Tv Holding Co., Ltd. (Cayman Islands)

China Life Insurance (China) (ADR

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of H share

H share

H shares In mainland China, the shares are referred to as H股 H shares, whilst in Hong Kong, they are called 恒生中國企業指數, literally Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. refers to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...

)

China Mobile Ltd (Hong Kong) (ADR

American Depositary Receipt

An American depositary receipt is a negotiable security that represents the underlying securities of a non-U.S. company that trades in the US financial markets...

 of Red chip

Red chip

Red chips stocks are the stocks of mainland China companies incorporated outside mainland China and listed in Hong Kong. The actual business is based in mainland China and controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the central, provincial or municipal governments of the Peoples' Republic of China...

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China National Offshore Oil Corp Ltd

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd.

China Netcom Group Corp (Hk) Ltd (Adr)

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp

China Security & Surveillance Tech. Inc.

China Southern Airlines Co Ltd

China Telecom Corp Ltd

China Unicom Ltd

China Yuchai International Ltd.

E-House (China) Holdings Limit

General Steel Holdings Inc

Giant Interactive Group Inc.

Guangshen Railway Co Ltd

Gushan Environmental Energy Ltd

Huaneng Power International Inc

Ldk Solar Co., Ltd.

Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd

Mindray Medical International Limited

New Oriental Education & Technology Group

Noah Education Holdings Ltd.

Petrochina Co Ltd

Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.

Rene Sola Ltd

Semiconductor Manufacturing International

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co Ltd

Suntech Power

Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company

Trina Solar Limited (Trina)

Vance Info Technologies Inc.

Wsp Holdings Ltd

Wuxi Pharma Tech (Cayman) Inc

Xinyuan Real Estate Co Ltd

Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited

N-Shares listed on NASDAQ

3Sbio Inc.

51Job Inc.

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc.

Airmedia Group Inc.

A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd.

Asiainfo Holdings Inc.

Ata Inc.

Baidu.Com, Inc.

Bmp Sunstone Corp

Canadian Solar Inc.

Cdc Corporation

China Automotive Systems Inc.

China Bak Battery, Inc.

China Finance Online Co. Ltd.

China Fire & Security Group

China Fire and Security Group

-Overview:China Fire and Security Group manufactures and sells fire devices, both for protection and warning . These producs are geared toward iron, steel, electricity, nuclear, and petrochemical industries. They mainly serve the People's Republic of China and India, and have 30 offices in that...

, Inc.

China Grentech Corp. Ltd.

China Medical Technologies Inc.

China Natural Resources, Inc.

China Precision Steel, Inc.

China Sunergy Co., Ltd.

China Techfaith Wireless Communication T

China Technology Development Group Corpo

Chinacast Education Corp

Chinaedu Corp

Cninsure Inc.

Comtech Group Inc.

Ctrip.Com International Ltd

E-Future Information Technology Inc.

Elong Inc.

Focus Media Holding

Fuqi International, Inc.

Fushi Copperweld, Inc.

Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd.

Global Sources Ltd.

Harbin Electric, Inc.

Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc.

Hurray! Holding Co. Ltd.

Ja Solar Holdings Co., Ltd.

Kandi Technologies Corp

Kongzhong Corp.

Linktone Ltd

Melco Pbl Entertainment (Macau) Limited

Netease.Com

New Oriental Energy & Chemical Corp.

Ninetowns Internet Technology Group Comp

Origin Agritech Limited

Perfect World Co Ltd

Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc.

Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd

Shengdatech, Inc.

Sina Corporation

Sohu Com Inc

Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd.

Sorl Auto Parts Inc

Spreadtrum Communications

Spreadtrum Communications

Spreadtrum Communications Inc is a fabless semiconductor company based in Shanghai which manufactures chips for mobile phones. The company originally produced chips for GSM handsets, but most of its resources are now focused on the Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G standard...

, Inc.

Sutor Technology Group Ltd

Telestone Technologies Corp

The9 Limited

Tom Online Inc

Vimicro International Corporation

Visionchina Media Inc.

Wonder Auto Technology, Inc

Xinhua Finance Media Limited

Yucheng Technologies Limited

N-Shares listed on the American Stock Exchange

Cathay Merchant Group, Inc.

China Architectural Engineering, Inc

China Direct, Inc

China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings

China Sky One Medical, Inc.

Jinpan International Ltd.

Man Sang Holdings, Inc

Minco Gold Corp

New Dragon Asia Corp

Orsus Xelent Technologies Inc.

Sinovac Biotech Ltd

See also

• A share
  A share (mainland China)
  A shares are specialized shares of the [Renmembi]]currency that are purchased and traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.This is contrast to Renmembi B shares which are owned by foreigners who cannot purchase A-shares due to Chinese government restrictions.-See also:* A share * B...
  
  
• B share
  B share
  B share can refer to various terms relating to stock classes:* B shares, a class of stock on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges* B shares, a class of stock on the New York Stock Exchange-See also:* B share* H share* Red chip* P chip* S chip...
  
  
• H share
  H share
  H shares In mainland China, the shares are referred to as H股 H shares, whilst in Hong Kong, they are called 恒生中國企業指數, literally Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. refers to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...
  
  
• Red chip
  Red chip
  Red chips stocks are the stocks of mainland China companies incorporated outside mainland China and listed in Hong Kong. The actual business is based in mainland China and controlled, either directly or indirectly, by the central, provincial or municipal governments of the Peoples' Republic of China...
  
  
• P chip
  P chip
  The term P chip refers to Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange which are incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands with operations in mainland China, and are run by private sector Chinese businessmen...
  
  
• S chip
  S chip
  S chips , also known as S-Shares, is a term that refers to Chinese companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. S-Chips are incorporated in Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda and have their business operations in mainland China...
  
  
• N share
• L share
  L share
  L-Shares refers to Chinese companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The listed companies are incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Jersey, but they have their main business operations in mainland China....
  
  
• G share
  G share
  G shares refers to shares traded in the stock exchanges of mainland China that belong to companies that have accomplished stock right division reforms, and have regained business on the market...
  
  
• China Concepts Stock
  China Concepts Stock
  China Concepts Stock is a set of stock of companies whose assets or earnings have significant activities in Mainland China. The People's Republic of China is undergoing major financial transformation, many leading mainland-based companies choose to list themselves overseas to gain access to...
  
  
• P Chips Frauds
• S-Chips Scandals
  S-Chips Scandals
  S-Chips Scandals relates to corporate scandals surrounding Chinese companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. Embezzlement, forgery, accounting fraud had been the order of the day. Frauds were perpetrated by Chinese citizens and facilitated by mostly Singaporean and Malaysian securities promoters...
  
  
• China Stock Frauds