If Mr Guo does not pour all the cash he has promised into Sharp, his investors would be relieved.
As well as opening the door to better companies, Mr Guo is trying to show the door to bad ones.
Mr Guo is trying both to smarten up the firms on the market and educate the investors who buy their shares.
Over half of those who bought shares on the first day of trading suffered losses within three months, Mr Guo says.
Mr Guo surely knows that in the jungle, mistakes can prove fatal.
During his first year in charge, Mr Guo has set about cracking down on insider trading, cajoling firms to pay dividends, opening the door to foreign investors, uprooting rotten companies from the exchange, and encouraging better firms to list on it, at better prices.
Mr. Guo added that Beijing plans to start construction of 160, 000 public-housing units this year.
Mr. Guo's remarks come after his Shanghai counterpart said the coastal city will continue policies to rein in home prices.
Close to 90% of homes sold in 2011 were to first-time buyers, Mr. Guo said in an annual work report to city officials.
State-owned banks, which take up almost half of the island's banking assets, are likely off the radar because of the political sensitivity, Mr. Guo said.
On Monday, they released activist and Beijing-based scholar Guo Yushan, who says he helped Mr. Chen flee.
Mr Shang's former job running the China Securities Regulatory Commission goes to Guo Shuqing, who until recently was chairman of China Construction Bank, a giant state-controlled bank.
On March 17th Guo Shuqing, China's leading foreign-exchange official, replaced Mr Zhang as the bank's party chief (a job that usually goes with the chairmanship).
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