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Urgent: China stocks dive over 6 percent at the opening

Xinhua, July 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks opened sharply lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sinking 6.97 percent to open at 3,467.4.

The Shenzhen Component Index opened 4.44 percent lower at 10,870.14.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, opened 2.01 percent lower at 2,304.76 points. Endi