🇨🇳⭐ STAR Market Stock Screener — Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation Board

Track the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market (SSE Sci-Tech Innovation Board, code KCB, 科创板) — China's NASDAQ equivalent for hard-tech, biotech, semiconductors, and new-energy IPOs. Screen prices, market cap in RMB, P/E, P/B, turnover, sector classification, and STAR 50 index membership across ~580 listed companies including SMIC (688981), Cambricon (688256), Hygon (688041), AMEC (688012), Kingsoft Office (688111), BeiGene (688235), United Imaging (688271), and Transsion Holdings (688036).

Why NexGenData STAR Market China Stock Screener Beats Bloomberg Terminal, Wind Information, and East Money Pro

Feature	NexGenData STAR Market Screener	Bloomberg Terminal	Wind Information (Wind 万得)	East Money Pro / Choice Data	Capital IQ China
Cost	$0.05/record pay-per-result	$$$$ ($24,000+/yr seat)	$$$$ ($5,000-$25,000/yr seat)	$$$ ($2,000-$8,000/yr seat)	$$$$ ($12,000-$30,000/yr seat)
Coverage	Every STAR Market (科创板) ticker — 6xx codes, STAR 50 flag, RMB price/market-cap, P/E, P/B, sector, turnover, dual-class flags, semiconductor/biotech/new-energy tags	Global incl. STAR Market but $24K/yr	Comprehensive China A-share (incl. STAR) + Hong Kong + global	China-focused (incl. STAR), Mandarin-only UI	Global incl. STAR, S&P fundamentals
Update frequency	Daily close + intraday refresh	Real-time tick	Real-time tick	Real-time (Mandarin-only)	Daily
API access	Apify Actor — JSON/CSV/Excel/Parquet	Bloomberg API / BBG Anywhere	Wind API (Mandarin, enterprise)	Choice Data API (Mandarin, enterprise)	Capital IQ API (enterprise)
Auth required	Apify token (free tier available)	Bloomberg seat license	Wind enterprise contract	East Money paid account	Capital IQ enterprise contract

⭐ Why a Dedicated STAR Market Screener?

The STAR Market launched in July 2019 as Shanghai's answer to NASDAQ. Unlike the main A-share boards, STAR uses a registration-based listing system, allows pre-profit companies, and concentrates on six strategic sectors: next-generation IT, advanced equipment, new materials, new energy, energy conservation & environmental protection, biomedicine, and integrated circuits. All STAR tickers start with "688" and carry a .SS Yahoo Finance suffix.

This actor exists because:

1. Different buyer pool. Tech-focused quants, semiconductor analysts, China-tech hedge funds, semis ETF builders and sell-side equity research teams want a clean, isolated STAR feed without ChiNext or Shanghai Main Board noise.
2. STAR 50 index focus. The STAR 50 index is the headline tech benchmark — comparable to the Nasdaq-100 — and is rebalanced semi-annually by SSE. The screener flags membership directly so you can filter to just the institutional-tracked names.
3. RMB-denominated metrics. Market cap reported in both raw CNY and rounded RMB billions — the unit Chinese analysts actually use.
4. Hard-tech sector tags. Each stock is auto-classified into Semiconductors, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, New Energy (Solar), Software / IT, Robotics, Aerospace, or general Other Tech — making it trivial to slice the data for thematic baskets.

📡 Data Source

Primary feed: Eastmoney's push2.eastmoney.com/api/qt/clist/get JSON quote endpoint with market filter fs=m:1+t:23 which selects only Shanghai-listed STAR Market (科创板) tickers. The same underlying feed powers Eastmoney's website, mobile app, and the sister nexgendata/eastmoney-china-stock-screener actor — battle-tested, real-time during Shanghai market hours (09:30-11:30 + 13:00-15:00 Beijing time, Mon–Fri excluding mainland holidays).

💻 Code Example — Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

# Fetch the STAR 50 index constituents, mid-cap or larger
run = client.actor("nexgendata/star-market-china-stock-screener").call(
    run_input={
        "limit": 50,
        "index": "STAR50",
        "min_market_cap_rmb_billion": 10,
        "sector": ""
    }
)

for stock in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(
        f"{stock['ticker']} | {stock['name']} | "
        f"¥{stock['price_cny']} | mcap=¥{stock['market_cap_rmb_billion']}B | "
        f"PE={stock['pe_ratio']} | sector={stock['sector']}"
    )

🌐 Code Example — cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~star-market-china-stock-screener/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "limit": 50,
    "index": "STAR-all",
    "min_market_cap_rmb_billion": 10,
    "sector": "Semiconductor"
  }'

🛠️ Input Schema

Field	Type	Default	Description
limit	integer	50	Max stocks to return (1–600).
index	string	STAR-all	STAR-all for full board, STAR50 for STAR 50 index only.
min_market_cap_rmb_billion	integer	0	Minimum market cap threshold in billion RMB.
sector	string	""	Substring filter on sector or company name (e.g. Semiconductor, Biotech, Solar, 医药).
proxyConfiguration	object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify proxy config (residential strongly recommended for mainland sources).

📊 Output Fields

Each record contains:

• Identity: ticker (688xxx), name (Chinese), exchange (SSE), board (STAR Market (KCB)), yahoo_symbol (e.g. 688981.SS)
• Index flag: index, is_star50 (boolean for STAR 50 index membership)
• Pricing: price_cny, change_cny, pct_change, high_cny, low_cny, open_cny, prev_close_cny
• Liquidity: volume, turnover_cny, amplitude_pct, turnover_rate_pct, volume_ratio
• Fundamentals: pe_ratio, pb_ratio
• Market cap: market_cap_cny (raw), market_cap_rmb_billion (rounded to 3dp), plus float_market_cap_cny / float_market_cap_rmb_billion
• Classification: sector (Semiconductors / Biotechnology / Medical Devices / New Energy / Software-IT / Robotics / Aerospace / etc.)
• Links: eastmoney_url, sse_url
• Metadata: scraped_at (UTC ISO timestamp)

🎯 Example Use Cases

• Semiconductor thematic basket. Filter sector=Semiconductor, sort by market cap → pulls SMIC, Cambricon, Hygon, AMEC, Montage, Empyrean, China Resources Micro into a single equal-weight or cap-weighted basket for a research note or paper portfolio.
• STAR 50 index tracker. Use index=STAR50 to track the headline benchmark — useful for ETF-style replication, performance attribution, and benchmark relative analysis.
• Pre-profit biotech radar. Filter sector=Biotech and pull the IPO-stage Chinese biotechs that are STAR Market-listed (BeiGene, Junshi, CanSino, Vazyme) — names that don't appear on the main Shanghai Main Board.
• Mega-cap hard-tech scan. Set min_market_cap_rmb_billion=100 to find the names large enough for institutional positions — typically a dozen or so chip and biotech leaders.
• Daily refresh for a dashboard. Schedule a daily run after Beijing market close (15:00 local / 07:00 UTC) and pipe straight into a Google Sheet, Snowflake table, BigQuery dataset, or Bloomberg-style internal terminal.

❓ FAQ

Q: What's the difference between STAR Market and ChiNext? Both are tech-heavy boards but STAR is on Shanghai (SSE) with 688-prefixed tickers and a registration-based listing system focused on hard-tech and pre-profit science companies. ChiNext is on Shenzhen (SZSE) with 300-prefixed tickers and a broader scope. STAR has higher institutional ownership; ChiNext has more retail flow. Use this actor for STAR and the sister eastmoney-china-stock-screener for ChiNext + main A-shares.

Q: What's the trading currency? All STAR Market quotes are in Chinese yuan renminbi (CNY / RMB / ¥). The market cap field is reported in both raw CNY and rounded billion RMB for convenience.

Q: Are STAR Market quotes real-time? The Eastmoney feed is real-time during Shanghai trading hours (09:30-11:30 + 13:00-15:00 Beijing time, Monday-Friday excluding mainland Chinese public holidays). Outside trading hours, you get the most recent close. The scraped_at UTC timestamp lets you know exactly when each record was captured.

Q: How do I get started? Sign up at apify.com, grab your API token from Settings → Integrations, and run the actor via the Apify console, REST API, Python SDK, or any integration (Zapier, Make.com, n8n, LangChain).

Q: What's the typical cost per run? At $0.25 per stock + $0.01 actor start, a STAR 50 scan costs roughly $12.51, a full ~580-name STAR-all scan costs roughly $145, and a 50-name sector-filtered run costs $12.51. Budget tip: filter aggressively with sector or min_market_cap_rmb_billion to keep costs predictable.

Q: Is the data commercially usable? You own the output. Eastmoney's underlying terms apply to the raw feed — check their ToS for redistribution restrictions if you plan to resell the data wholesale. Internal analytics, alpha generation, paper portfolios, and research notes are all standard fair use.

Q: Is this actor maintained? Yes. NexGenData maintains 170+ Apify actors and ships updates regularly. STAR Market listing changes (new IPOs, delistings, STAR 50 index rebalancing) are reflected on the next scrape since they propagate through the Eastmoney feed automatically.

Q: Why residential proxy by default? Eastmoney is mainland-China-hosted. Apify residential proxies provide the most reliable access and consistent response payloads, particularly during peak Shanghai trading hours. The default is set so the actor works out of the box.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event — you only pay for results you actually receive.

• Actor Start: $0.01 per run
• Stock record: $0.25 per STAR Market stock returned

The aggressive $0.25/stock price reflects the institutional buyer profile (sell-side equity research, semi ETF builders, China-tech hedge funds, family offices) and the curated tech-focused sector classification that you don't get on a generic A-share feed. Compared to a Bloomberg Terminal seat or Wind Information license, a full daily STAR-all scan is rounding error.

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Why NexGenData vs. paid alternatives

Tool	Annual cost	API access	Coverage
Bloomberg Terminal	~$24,000/seat	Limited	Global
FactSet	~$15,000/seat	Paid add-on	Global
Refinitiv Eikon	~$22,000/seat	Paid add-on	Global
S&P Capital IQ	~$20,000/seat	Paid add-on	Global
NexGenData China STAR Screener	Pay-per-result	Native	China STAR

Run this actor once per day for a typical institutional-scale workflow (~200 records/day) and your annual cost is approximately $1,800–2,000 — a 90-95% discount vs. the major paid alternatives, with no seat licensing, no minimum commitment, and full programmatic access.

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