Investors look through stock information at a trading hall of a securities firm in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 24, 2015. China stocks nosedived on Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropping 8.49 percent to close at 3209.91 points, the sharpest decline since Feb. 27, 2007. The smaller Shenzhen Component Index fell 7.83 percent to close at 10,970.29 points. The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, lost 8.08 percent to end at 2,152.61 points. Near 2200 shares tumbled by the daily limit of 10 percent. (Photo: Xinhua/Zhuang Yi)
