Wall St sell-off prompts global rout

A-shares likely to continue enticing foreign investors

China's A-share market, together with other major Asian bourses, plunged on Thursday in a chain reaction following the sell-off in the United States.

Major markets in Asia finished sharply lower, with the fall in the Chinese mainland leading the region - the Shanghai Composite Index fell 5.2 percent, hitting the lowest level since February 2016; Japan's Nikkei 225 was down 3.9 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 3.6 percent.