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Chinese shares close higher Thursday

Xinhua, March 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.2 percent, at 2,904.83 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index closed 3.41 percent higher at 9,791.85 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, jumped 5.55 percent to close at 2087.29 points. Endi