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Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index Rises 1.93% to Close at 16863.1 Points

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, March 21 (Xinhua) Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 320.03 points, or 1.93%, to close at 16863.1 points on the 21st. The board’s main transaction volume for the whole day was HK$118.051 billion.

The state-owned enterprise index rose 101.28 points to close at 5905.27 points, an increase of 1.75%. The Hang Seng Technology Index rose 31.48 points to close at 3582.9 points, an increase of 0.89%.

As for blue-chip stocks, Tencent Holdings rose 0.83% to close at HK$291.2; Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing rose 0.75% to close at HK$242; China Mobile rose 1.21% to close at HK$66.85; HSBC Holdings rose 2.18% to close at HK$60.9.

As for local Hong Kong stocks, Cheung Kong Holdings rose 2.79% to close at HK$36.8; Sun Hung Kai Properties rose 1.66% to close at HK$76.35; Henderson Land rose 4.55% to close at HK$23.

As for Chinese financial stocks, Bank of China rose 2.49% to close at HK$3.29; China Construction Bank rose 2.75% to close at HK$4.85; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China rose 1.79% to close at HK$3.98; China’s Ping An rose 1.87% to close at HK$35.5; China Life rose 2.75%, closing at HK$9.7.

In petroleum and petrochemical stocks, Sinopec rose 0.44% to close at HK$4.58; PetroChina rose 2.18% to close at HK$6.57; China National Offshore Oil rose 0.77% to close at HK$18.22.

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