1st LD-Writethru: Chinese shares close lower Thursday

BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.25 percent, at 3,586.08 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.66 percent lower at 14,429.51 points.

The combined turnover of stocks covered by the two indices stood at about 1.14 trillion yuan (about 178.9 billion U.S. dollars), down from 1.31 trillion yuan on the previous tradin