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The Shanghai A-share market made history on Friday by breaking the world record for turnover by any stock exchange in a single day.

More than 700 billion yuan ($114 billion) worth of shares changed hands on the bourse. The previous record was turnover of $99.5 billion, or 610 billion yuan at the current exchange rate, on July 26, 2007, on the US stock market.