Exploiting the staggered removal of short-sale bans in China,the paper examines how short-selling affects share overvaluation from the perspective of heterogeneous beliefs. The study finds that removal of shortsale bans can decrease share overvaluation. Short-sellers use both public information and private information to trade,contributing to the price discovery. Furthermore,short-sellers release more pessimism or negative information by short selling more stocks,which can decrease share overvaluations. Short-sellers trade to decrease overvaluation by selling stocks with higher contemporaneous returns and private information. The study provides new and direct evidences for worldwide arguments on this problem: whether short-selling can improve stock pricing efficiency or not. At the same time,this study provides a unified conclusion to the information sources of short-sellers.