The shareholders' meeting is the authority of the company. The company has a board of directors, which is responsible to the shareholders' meeting and exercises the powers granted by the shareholders' meeting. The board of directors shall set up an executive committee as the daily decision-making, management and execution organ of the board of directors. The Board of Directors has special committees on transaction, settlement, remuneration, risk control, supervision and mediation.

At present, the company has 1 general manager and 3 deputy general managers.

CICC has 19 internal departments, 1 temporary institutions and 2 subordinate companies. They are: Party Committee Office (Board Office), Board of Supervisors Office, Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office, Office, Trading Department, Settlement Department, Supervision Department, Legal Department, Information Technology Department, Marketing Department, R&D Department, Finance Department, Internal Audit Department, Human Resources Department (Party Committee Organization Department), Investor Education Center, International Development Department, Stock Index Department, Bond Department and Foreign Exchange Department. The temporary organization is the Infrastructure Office. The subsidiaries are Shanghai Financial Futures Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Financial Derivatives Research Institute Co., Ltd.