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Chinese shares close higher Friday

Xinhua, January 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's stocks closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.25 percent, at 2,916.56 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index rose 1.36 percent to close at 10,111.57 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 1.76 percent to close at 2,149.59 points. Endi