electricvehicle maker xpeng and ecommerce platforms alibaba and tencent were among the chinese stocks rising on thursday in hong kong trading as officials signal a loosening of covid19 restrictions although uslisted stocks gave up some gains from the previous day hu xijin former editor in chief of the staterun global times and a widely followed media personality tweeted that china was speeding up its exit from “largescale lockdowns” after the chinese cities of guangzhou and chongqing eased covid curbs on wednesday china has been rocked by protests in major cities over strict health controls