The Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE) has reached 300 listed companies, with manufacturing firms accounting for 83 percent of the total, BSE said on Friday.

The listed firms span 37 sectors of 11 industry categories, and the exchange has attracted a cluster of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in sectors such as new energy, biopharmaceuticals and automobile manufacturing.

Nearly 60 percent of BSE-listed firms have been designated as national-level "little giant" enterprises, which refer to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that use specialized and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products.