Update: Chinese shares close lower Thursday

BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.22 percent to 3,448.45 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.48 percent lower at 10,343.48 points

The combined turnover of these two indices stood at 1.58 trillion yuan (about 220.61 billion U.S. dollars), down from 1.6 trillion yuan on the previous trading day.

Shares in the photoetching machine, brain-computer interface and semiconductor sectors suffered the most, while those related to the military equipment, cross-border payment, bank, oil and gas led the gains.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.66 percent to close at 2,114.43 points Thursday. ■