As of press time, the three major indexes of Hong Kong stocks rose, the Hang Seng index rose 0.54% to 19933.81 points, with a turnover of 33.304 billion; the state-owned enterprises index rose 0.51% to 6763.11 points, with a turnover of 11.617 billion; and the red chip index rose 0.66% to 3625.06 points, with a turnover of 1.513 billion.

Power stocks continued to rise, China Power rose more than 7%, Longyuan Power rose more than 6%, Sichuan Energy Investment Development, Datang New Energy rose more than 3%, China Resources Power, Huaneng International Power shares, Dongfang Electric rose and rose. Recently, many places continue to be high temperature, electricity demand has increased greatly, superimposed due to drought and insufficient water conservancy and power generation, power restriction measures have been taken in some areas. On August 16, Xin Baoan, chairman of the State Grid Co., Ltd., secretary of the party group, stressed. Ensure the safe operation of the power grid, scientifically arrange the operation mode, strengthen the monitoring of power grid operation, adhere to the company-wide "one game of chess", give full play to the role of large power grid resource allocation, organize cross-regional and trans-provincial surplus and shortage, and maximize support for power supply in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Auto stocks fell, ideal car fell more than 3%, Xilai Motor fell more than 2%, Xiaopeng Motor and BYD shares fell.

Inner housing stocks rose, with country Garden and Xuhui holding Group up more than 4%, Hesheng Chuangzhang Group and Vanke Enterprises up more than 3%.

Chinese brokerage stocks rose, Everbright Securities and Hongye Futures rose more than 4%, and Oriental Securities and Guangfa Securities rose more than 2%.

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Haitian International's share price has rebounded, rising more than 6% to recover yesterday's decline to HK $18.26, with a total market capitalization of HK $29.1 billion. The company's net profit in the first half of fiscal year 2022 was 1.172 billion yuan, down 25.98% from a year earlier, and Goldman Sachs maintained its "sell" rating. Yesterday's share price fell to a new low. It is worth mentioning that the first phase of Shunde plant is expected to be put into trial production in the second half of 2022, as the layout of factories at home and abroad is optimized. The company is expected to continue to promote cost reduction and efficiency.

At one point, Caixin Media soared 233% in early trading, but now the increase has fallen to more than 20%. Caixun Media announced on August 15 that it intends to issue 120 million shares at a discount of HK $0.46 per share on August 15, with a subscription price of HK $0.40 per share and a net fund of about HK $47.8 million. It is expected that all the net proceeds from the subscription will be used to expand its advertising business. Especially digital marketing service and multi-channel network service.