Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange: Promoting the research and development of varieties such as steel billets, cement, chicken meat, etc. in an orderly manner.

Xiong Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, stated at the 2025 China International Futures Forum on the 20th that they will continue to enrich the variety of tools offered and solidify the foundation of services. They will closely follow national strategies and the needs of real development, steadily promote the research and registration of sunflower seed oil futures, orderly promote the research and development of varieties such as steel billets, cement, and chicken, and explore the promotion of more short-term options. Based on their own variety endowments in the fields of energy and salt chemistry, they will expand upstream and downstream of existing advantageous industrial chains and continuously enrich the types of derivative instruments. They will deepen the research on reserve varieties and continue to advance the research and development of derivatives that meet the needs of the real economy.