shanghai nov 11 reuters  china stocks gained on thursday bucking the trend in asia as investors snapped up battered property shares on bets that beijing will relax policies to prevent a sectorwide collapse hong kong shares dipped slightly  china’s bluechip csi300 index rose 09 in morning trading while the shanghai composite index gained 06 hong kong’s benchmark hang seng index edged 02 lower  in contrast msci’s broadest index of asiapacific shares outside japan dropped 07 after data showed us consumer prices surged at the fastest pace since 1990 last month  sentiment in china and hong kong was bolstered by sharp rebounds in property shares amid a slew of positive signals that fan hopes for policy easing  the csi300 real estate index surged nearly 8 while an index tracking hong konglisted mainland developers jumped more than 3  a thinktank of china’s state council met a local property association and financial institutions in guangzhou chinese media reported on thursday days after the agency held a similar meeting with developers and banks in shenzhen  on wednesday the securities times reported some real estate companies disclosed plans to issue debt in the interbank market at a meeting with market regulators  data showing a rise in new mortgage loans in october and news that china evergrande group bondholders received coupon payments from the indebted developer also aided sentiment  “china needs to relax property curbs because the industry is so important to economic growth” said liam zhou founder of shanghaibased hedge fund house minority asset management  bank stocks also rose in china and hong kong on receding fears that further defaults by developers would erode banks’ balance sheets  chinese brokerages shares also rose sharply on thursday as investors bet they will benefit from the imminent launch of the beijing stock exchange reporting by shanghai newsroom editing by ramakrishnan m