BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks closed lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.36 percent at 3,241.31 points.
The smaller Shenzhen index closed 0.4 percent lower at 10,520.82 points. The ChiNext Index, China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.78 percent to close at 1,929.2 points.