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Chinese shares open lower Thursday

Xinhua, January 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 1.55 percent to open at 3,309.66 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index opened 1.88 percent lower at 11,504.9 points. The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 2.15 percent to open at 2,415.33 points. Endi