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Chinese shares open higher Thursday

Xinhua, February 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks opened higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.5 percent, at 2,881.78 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.68 percent higher at 10,231.26 points. The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 0.7 percent to open at 2,230.8 points. Endi