Chinese shares open mixed

Beijing: Chinese stocks opened mixed on Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.22 percent at 3,085.57 points. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.15 percent higher at 9,919.56 points, Xinhua reported. The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, opened 0.19 percent higher at 2,024.89 points.