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(Yicai Global) Aug. 5 -- China's stock markets continued to slide in afternoon trading after an unsuccessful morning.
The Shanghai Composite Index closed 1.62 percent lower at 2,821.5. The Shenzhen Component Index was at 8,984.73, down 1.66 percent, and the ChiNext Price Index, which tracks growth enterprises in Shenzhen, ended 1.63 percent lower at 1,531.37.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down 2.77 percent at 26,174.04 as of 3.34 p.m.
Editor: James Boynton