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Yuan forwards took their biggest tumble in 3 weeks on speculation of worsening exports will dissuade China from allowing its currency to gain value.
Just 16 banks contributed almost 93 percent of the first-quarter profits of the 50 A-share listed financial service companies.
China will allow small and medium-sized non-public companies to have their securities traded on a national over-the-counter market.
Chinese shares closed mixed on Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ending flat at 2,451.95.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, rose 19.86 points, or 2.78 percent, to close at 733.04 points on Monday.
The Hushen 300 Index reflecting the performance of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges closed at 2,717.78 points, up 1.90 points from the previous close.
China's stock index futures closed higher on Monday, with the contract for May inched up 0.07 percent from the previous trading day to 2,714.2 points.
China's stock index futures opened lower on Monday, with the contract for settlement in May, the most actively traded, opening at 2,705, down 12.2 points.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, opened at 710.98 points on Monday, down 2.21 points from the previous close.
The Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, lost 137 basis points to 6.2858 against the US dollar on Monday.
The forerunners of the current media reform began to engage with the stock market long before People.cn launched its IPO.
The central government has accelerated a pilot project launched in 2009 to transform 10 major State-owned news websites into commercial enterprises.