At the open, China’s main futures contracts were mostly higher. Shanghai silver and platinum rose over 2%; Shanghai zinc, live hogs, Shanghai tin, cast aluminum, Shanghai gold and red dates gained more than 1%. On the downside, synthetic rubber fell over 2%; SC crude oil, fuel oil, eggs, 20# rubber and PVC dropped more than 1%; soda ash and styrene (EB) declined around 1%.

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By midday, Shanghai Composite was up 0.17%, Shenzhen Composite down 1.21% and ChiNext down 1.28% — ChiNext had earlier rallied more than 1.6% before reversing. Turnover across the two bourses exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan and over 3,200 stocks fell. Innovative-drug names led gains, with multiple stocks including Wanbang Medicine hitting daily limit-up. Pork and baijiu sectors outperformed. Compute-infrastructure names such as CPO-related stocks spiked early then eased; MicroLED and e-paper were among the biggest decliners.