Stock index futures saw higher trading volumes during the second half of last month along with a marked increase in speculative trading, the China Financial Futures Exchange said on Friday.
The worst monthly slump in Chinese stocks in two years wiped away more than $34 billion in combined net worth of the richest people on the Chinese mainland and in Hong Kong in June.
For international investors accustomed to speed, trading in China's stock market is like flying blind.
Stock market experts have put forward advice to curb the plunging A-share market and prevent systemic risks extending to the entire financial market.
About 28 companies listed on the ChiNext stock market, a Nasdaq-style board of Shenzhen-listed growth enterprises, said in a joint statement on Friday that more measures are necessary to restore investor confidence and ensure market stability, after the benchmark index slumped by about 30 percent in the last two weeks.
The boom and bust cycle in China's equities market seems to be taking place much quicker than anticipated, sparking warnings that stock market turmoil may generate a systemic financial crisis that could spill over into the country's sluggish economy.
The cooperation between China and France not only benefits the two countries but the entire world, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said during his speech at a France-China economic summit at Toulouse, France, on Thursday.
Chinese scientists have identified what they say is the most complex HIV ever discovered, in the blood of a long-distance truck driver from Myanmar.
New archaeological discoveries in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, suggest that China may have been cultivating tea plants more than 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Food and cooking programs are all immensely popular on television and online.
Item from July 3, 1995, in China Daily: Chen Zucheng, Party secretary of Chengdazhuang village of Huankou town in Fengxian county of Jiangsu province, cheerfully checks growing conditions of Hongfushi grapes ... Prompted by numerous varieties of fruit throughout the country, China is gaining a reputation as one of the world's major fruit exporters, the Ministry of Agriculture says.
A number of bars and clubs in Sanlitun, a popular nightlife area in downtown Beijing, have been found violating a smoking ban that took effect last month.
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