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NOT EDITED 1st LD-Writethru: Chinese shares close mixed Tuesday

Xinhua, June 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks closed mixed on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.07 percent, at 2,936.04 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index closed 0.15 percent lower at 10,347.84 points.

Combined turnover on the two bourses dropped to 509.038 billion yuan (77.48 billion U.S. dollars) from 527.93 billion yuan the previous trading day.

Stocks related to lithium battery and electric charging piles led the gains, while Internet lottery and football shares were among the biggest losers.

Beijing Sojo Electric Co. Ltd. surged by the daily limit of 10 percent to end at 25.47 yuan per share. Guangzhou Goaland Energy Conservation Tech Co. Ltd. also rose by 7.31 percent to end at 94.11 yuan.

The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.12 percent to close at 2,196.73 points.

On June 15, The global stock index compiler MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) will announce its decision on whether to add China's A-share market into its emerging market index. Endi