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Chinese shares close lower Thursday

Xinhua, March 2, 2017 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.52 percent at 3,230.03 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index closed 0.49 percent lower at 10,367.31 points. The ChiNext Index, China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.6 percent to close at 1,920.4 points. Endi