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China's shares surge on Monday
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Updated: 2006-05-08 17:40


A stock investor monitors the stock trading information at an office of a securities company in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province May 8, 2006. China's stock market surged to its highest level in nearly two years after a yearlong moratorium on new share sales by companies already traded on its exchanges was lifted. The composite index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 1,489.53 points on Monday, up 49.31 points from the previous close, and the component index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 4,012.31 points, up 164.21 points from the previous close. [newsphoto] 


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