近几个月以来，随着有关部门查出越来越多的虚假注册账户，很快我国将最多允许个人投资者在沪市开设三个股票账户。
China will soon allow individual investors to open no more than three accounts for Shanghai-listed shares following the detection of a growing number of fake registrations in recent months.
据证监会知情人士称，证监会预计将在近日宣布这项新规。
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is expected to announce the new rule recently, according to a source close to the securities watchdog.
该知情人士表示，新规发布前已拥有三个以上账户的个人将不会受到影响。
Individuals who had more than three accounts prior to the new ruling will not be affected, the source said.
中国证监会旗下解决A股市场所有交易的子公司--中国证券登记结算有限公司--在去年四月解除了一项长达17年的禁令，允许个人投资者同时开放20个证券交易账户来交易上海上市的股票。
China Securities Depository and Clearing Corp Ltd (CSDC) -- a subsidiary of CSRC that settles all transactions in the A-share market -- lifted a 17-year-old ban in April last year, allowing individual investors to open up to 20 securities trading accounts simultaneously to trade in Shanghai-listed shares.
在此之前，一个单独的投资者仅被允许有一个唯一的帐户。
Previously, an individual investor was permitted to have one only account.
不过，证券监管机构最近发现，在几家证券公司开始大量营销活动，鼓励投资者开设证券账户之后，出现了大量新注册的虚假账户。
However, the securities regulator found recently that a number of new registrations are likely to be false after a few securities firms began heavy marketing activities to encourage investors to open securities accounts.
知情人士表示，近期某券商许多新开账户的通信地址被发现都是相同的。
"Many correspondence addresses used for newly opened accounts in a securities firm were found to be the same," according to the source.
中国证券登记结算有限公司的数据显示，8月，中国大陆的新开证券账户数量超过200万个，但当月的股市表现却不温不火。
CSDC data suggest that newly opened securities accounts on the Chinese mainland exceeded two million in August amid a lukewarm stock market performance during the month.