Yan Zhen and Guo Lei/Shanghai Daily news

Nearly 5,000 university students will spend the next month trading shares in the city's first mock university stock investment contest, Shanghai Daily reported. 

Initiated by a stock club at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the citywide contest provides mock trading accounts for participants and a real-time software trading platform. The software is connected to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The contest starts tomorrow and ends on May 23.