It will assume the power from the securities regulator in approving those applications, by focusing more on information disclosures rather than growth potentials, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement on Friday.

The Shenzhen bourse also said in separate statements that it will widen the daily trading band, stiffen delisting requirements and allow listings of so-called red-chip companies, or Chinese firms that register overseas.

The Star Market, which began trading in July, is exempt from rules that cap initial public offering prices and adopts a 20 per cent daily limit on individual stocks after their first week of trading versus the 10 per cent cap for the rest of the market.

“The ChiNext reform involves the existing market and that signals that the reform has deepened,” said Wang Yi, an analyst at Great Wall Securities. “If the ChiNext reform is successful, it may be a matter of time before these measures, including the registration system for new offerings, are applied to the overall market.”

The maximum review period for ChiNext applications is two months, the securities regulator said. Companies whose market caps are below 300 million yuan (US$42.4 million) for 20 consecutive days will be delisted, while the daily trading cap will be widened to 20 per cent from 10 per cent currently, according to the Shenzhen bourse.

The relaxation of the trading band will boost the valuation of ChiNext market and particularly benefit the leaders in the fledging industries, according to Xue Jun, an analyst at Orient Securities.

The ChiNext board was at the centre of a boom-to-bust cycle that wiped off US$5 trillion in capitalisation in a 2015 rout that rattled China’s stock market. The ChiNext index is now still 44 per cent off its all-time high set in that year.