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In little over six months as China’s top securities watchdog, Guo Shuqing has let loose a flurry of new rules aimed at curbing the insider trading, market manipulation and dodgy disclosures that have hamstrung China’s stock markets even as its economy has grown.

 

But China’s more than 72 million retail investors, who account for about three-fourths of trading on the country’s stock exchanges and have been burned repeatedly in the weak and volatile markets of recent years, remain skeptical.