Umbrella term covering 股票期权 (options), 限制性股票 (restricted stock), 员工持股计划 (ESOP), and similar schemes. Standard HR and financial-reporting vocabulary in Chinese listed companies.
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Heavily regulated by the CSRC. In the mid-2010s nearly every A-share listed company rolled out a 股权激励 plan as Chinese tech and pharma competed with foreign firms for engineers.