Crude oil futures closed lower Thursday in daytime trading on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange.
The most active crude oil contract for July delivery was down 5.6 yuan (about 79 U.S. cents) to close at 280.4 yuan a barrel.
The total trading volume for 13 listed crude oil futures contracts on the exchange was 269,822 lots, with a turnover of about 78.2 billion yuan.
China launched the crude oil futures trading, which is open to overseas investment, in March 2018.
Editor:Cherie
