Share prices on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses regained strength and moved up solidly amid thinner turnover on Monday led by small cap stocks, especially those in media, metals and hi-tech sectors.
For the whole day, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.34 percent to end at 3,536.93 points. The Shenzhen Composite Index went up 1.26 percent to end at 2,261.41 points. The index for small firms gained 0.99 percent to end at 8,316.89 and the ChiNext Index jumped 1.71 percent to end at 2,738.15.
Combined turnover of the two bourses expanded to 751.048 billion yuan from 823 billion yuan on the previous trading day.
Stocks of media, education, tourism, nonferrous metals, software, internet, textile and internet sectors were the top gainers on the day while those in securities brokerage, insurance, shipbuilding, bank and aviation sectors led the losers.
On the stock index futures market, the IF December contract shed 0.14 percent to end at 3,620.0, keeping a discount of 67.61 points to the underlying Hushen 300 Index, which rose 0.27 percent to end at 3,687.61.
The SSE 50 December contract fell 0.26 percent to end at 2,368.0, keeping a discount of 27.58 points to the underlying SSE 50 Index, which lost 0.08 percent to close at 2,395.58.
The CSI November contract rose 0.71 percent to end at 7,339.4, keeping a discount of 262.83 points to the underlying CSI 500 stock index, which went up 1.21 percent to end at 7,602.23.
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