Chinese shares close mixed on Tuesday
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares closed mixed on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.06 percent, at 3,367.23 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.52 percent higher at 13,763.31 points.

The combined turnover of stocks covered by the two indices stood at 709.58 billion yuan (about 108.44 billion U.S. dollars), slightly down from 709.7 billion yuan on the previous trading day.

Shares related to automobile and biological products led the gains, with Jiangsu Alcha Aluminium Group Co., Ltd. seeing its shares rise by the daily limit of 10 percent to close at 4.18 yuan per share.

Bucking the upward trend, businesses in the sectors of breeding, agricultural planting and semiconductors were in losing territory.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 1.18 percent to close at 2,758.85 points on Tuesday.