China Stocks Close Morning Session Higher; Shanghai Composite Up 0.22%

The pattern across these mainland gauges is a clean growth-over-value tilt: the STAR 50 and ChiNext, both weighted toward tech and smaller innovative names, outpaced the broad CSI 300 and the Shanghai Composite, and the CSI 1000 beat the CSI 500. That ordering suggests risk appetite is concentrated in higher-beta segments rather than a uniform index-wide bid. Whether that leadership persists through the afternoon close, or narrows back toward the large-cap benchmarks, is the open question worth watching.