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Chinese shares tumble Wednesday

Xinhua, April 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's stocks suffered a heavy blow on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropping 2.31percent to finish at 2,972.58 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index fell 4.13 percent at 10,164.74 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, plummeted 5.6 percent to close at 2,145.24 points. Endi