hong kong stocks ended a truncated day of trading with more gains wednesday building on the previous days surge on hopes china will begin winding back some of its painful zerocovid policies the hang seng index rose 241 percent or 37190 points to 1582717 a day after climbing more than five percent the surge came after an unverified post on social media suggested officials were forming a committee to discuss rolling back some of the countrys strict measures which have stunted growth and hit supply chains the shanghai composite index rose 115 percent or 3417 points to 300337 while the shenzhen composite index on chinas second exchange climbed 133 percent or 2585 points to 196820 the hong kong market was closed early wednesday due to severe tropical storm nalgae skirting the city