BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Chinese stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.17 percent to 2,967.25 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.75 percent lower at 9,330.86 points.
The combined turnover of stocks covered by the two indices totaled 737.5 billion yuan (about 103.87 billion U.S. dollars), down from 787.8 billion yuan on the previous trading day.
Bucking the downward trend, shares in the coal and tourism sectors led gains. Those related to semiconductors and robots suffered the heaviest losses.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, lost 1.14 percent to close at 1,834.73 points on Wednesday.