Investors play ping-pong at a brokerage house in Jiashan county, East China's Zhejiang province, Jan 14, 2014. [Photo/IC]

The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, linking bourses of both cities, launched in November and is the first time many mainlanders are able to invest overseas. Under the current rule of Stock Connect, mainland players can invest a net value of as much as 250 billion yuan in Hong Kong stocks with a daily cap at 10.5 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), while overseas investors are allowed a net value of as much as 300 billion yuan in A shares with a daily cap at 13 billion yuan.