[Wang Ying, Deputy Director of the Futures Supervision Department of the China Securities Regulatory Commission: As of the end of September 2026, the number of effective customers in the market reached 3.148 million] October 14th, Wang Ying, Deputy Director of the Futures Supervision Department of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said at the 19th International Oils and Oils Conference and Agricultural and Livestock Industry (Derivatives) Conference on October 14 that as of the end of September 2026, the number of effective customers in the whole market reached 3.148 million. The trading volume of commodity futures has ranked among the top in the world for many years, and the market depth and carrying capacity have continued to increase. Currently, there are 171 listed futures and options varieties, covering major areas of the national economy such as agricultural products, metals, energy, chemicals, shipping, and finance, providing domestic and foreign entities with rich, efficient, and convenient risk management tools. Entity enterprises have become an important force in participating in the futures market. From January to September 2026, the average daily transactions and positions of industrial customers in the market increased by 3.25% and 5.81% respectively year-on-year. A-share non-financial listed companies announced that they participated in hedging reached 1,892, and the participation rate increased by 27.2 percentage points from ten years ago to 35.4%. Basis trading, rights-inclusive trading and other futures and spot trading are widely carried out in combination with business models. Up to now, the number of specific products directly open to the outside world in the futures market has reached 38, and qualified foreign investors can participate in 141 trading products. Domestic futures exchanges have successively launched pulp, soybean oil, and natural rubber futures settlement price authorization projects in Norway, Malaysia, and Japan, realizing the "Chinese price" going global, and the market response has been good.