Chinese shares open mixed

Beijing: Chinese stocks opened mixed on Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.01 percent to open at 3,630.87 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.02 percent lower at 12,699.15 points, Xinhua reported.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.11 percent to open at 2,797.12 points.