May 27 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Tuesday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL
- The insurance industry's total assets have exceeded 9 trillion yuan ($1.44 trillion) so far, sources close to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) said. Risk management will be a priority for the regulator for the year.
- Investigations of insider trading in the fund management industry should be formalised despite possible shocks to publicly offered funds, the newspaper said in an editorial.
- Moody's Investor Service downgraded its outlook on China's property development sector to "negative" from "stable" amid growing pessimism about the industry among foreign investors.
SHANGHAI SECURITIES NEWS
- The preferred share issuance plan by Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co Ltd has won shareholders' approval. The fundraising is aimed at supporting its transformation into a large bank and achieving a more balanced structure involving its wholesale, retail and capital businesses.
SECURITIES TIMES
- China's central government published its plans and targets for energy saving for this year and the next. Energy-saving services will be regulated under the "negative list", which explicitly sets business boundaries and opens the gates for a wider range of unlisted companies.
21ST CENTURY BUSINESS HERALD
- New loans of China's "big four" state-owned banks have only reached 130 billion yuan as of May 25, sources said.
CHINA DAILY
- The U.S. Justice Department indicted five individuals of the People' Liberation Army, saying they had hacked into the computers of U.S. companies for the benefit of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The act is seen as Washington's attempt to draw a fine line between spying to benefit particular companies, which it regards as illegitimate, and spying to benefit the economy, which it seems to regard as legitimate.
PEOPLE'S DAILY
- As of the first quarter of 2014, 53 SOEs have invested in 685 projects in Xinjiang, with the actual investment amount reaching 590.4 billion yuan.
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($1 = 6.2392 Chinese Yuan) (Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)