BEIJING - 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), 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.