Many people say that A-shares are trash and not suitable for ordinary people to play with.

I want to say that’s indeed true—apart from individual stocks in the Sci-Tech Innovation Board and the Growth Enterprise Market, there’s basically nothing else to play.
There are a lot of trash stocks: for volatility, there’s none; for trends, there’s none either. Most of them also fall but don’t rise.
Individual stocks on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board and the Growth Enterprise Market do have volatility and trends—but the bar is high. Ordinary people can’t get access, so they can only stare blankly as prices go up.
Since the Sci-Tech Innovation Index hit its low point in September 2024 up to today, it has risen by nearly 3 times, and the profit-making effect of the stocks inside has been very good.
But you should know that opening access to the Sci-Tech Innovation Board has a 500,000 capital threshold, while the Growth Enterprise Market has a 100,000 capital threshold!
Ordinary retail investors—let alone 100,000—if they even have 50,000 to trade stocks, they can already be considered somewhat well-off!