I recently saw this entry by Kevin Walmsley on China trying to have a greater role in Global commodities. He also has a video on this
and also this Bloomberg article about it
It's very interesting, but also logical for Shanghai to play a bigger role in trading in commodities trading world since it needs to do to expand the financial services sector.
so I took a look here of this 13B RMB fund by 上海国资 to form subsidiary "上海国茂控股有限公司"
进一步巩固金属贸易规模优势。扩大铜、铝、钢铁等现有优势金属品类交易规模,鼓励国内外有矿产资源的企业扩大市场货源投放。加快发展新兴金属,配合支持上期所,加快镁、钨、钴等新兴金属期货品种研发,吸引集聚镍、锂、镁、锡、钨、钴等金属贸易商。支持传统金属贸易绿色转型,拓展再生铜、再生铝等再生金属品种现货交易。(区商务委、区委金融办、各片区管理局和街镇)
expanding trading volume of Copper, Aluminum, steel by encouraging more domestic and foreign companies to provide supply. So, the importance here I guess is to increase volume and commodify trading. Although agreeing to a standard and enforcing the alloy standard will be up to the exchange to do so.
And also look to get into magnesium, tungsten and Cobalt & attract traders of nickel, lithium, magnesium, tin, tungsten and cobalt. So, all metals that China really does a lot of refining and processing. + supporting more trading of recycled copper and aluminum.
发挥金融赋能作用。支持商业银行为大宗商品贸易企业提供全方位金融服务,提供差异化贷款产品。加大企业和金融机构联动,通过人民币跨境支付系统等实现商品贸易货款的跨境支付和结算。推广本外币合一的银行结算账户体系,优化本外币银行结算账户服务。支持企业采用数字人民币结算,提升支付结算效率。支持融资担保机构为企业提供融资担保服务。推动保险行业拓展大宗商品贸易保险业务。聚焦重点领域,推动大宗商品交易服务平台对接上海清算所“清算通”业务,完善“清算通”平台跨行跨境现货清算结算功能。(区委金融办、区商务委)
As always, one reason to push forward this is strengthening China's finance industry and banking. + increasing payment through CIPS and settlement in RMB. + using Shanghai clearing house's clearing connect platform.