The HSI slipped 284 points or 1.1% to close at 25,383 at midday. The HSCEI lost 116 points or nearly 1.3% to close at 9,140 at midday. The HSTECH faded 97 points or 1.7% to 5,645. Hong Kong stocks' half-day turnover amounted to $151.008 billion.The heavy-weighting “ATMXJ” (i.e. Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, Xiaomi and JD) techs weakened, with TENCENT (00700.HK) -15.000 (-2.727%) Short selling $1.95B; Ratio 16.927% sagging 1.6% at midday. XIAOMI-W (01810.HK) +0.250 (+0.470%) Short selling $1.00B; Ratio 14.947% , BABA-W (09988.HK) +1.200 (+1.037%) Short selling $662.20M; Ratio 7.482% , MEITUAN-W (03690.HK) +0.600 (+0.493%) Short selling $1.89B; Ratio 27.601% and JD-SW (09618.HK) -0.200 (-0.163%) Short selling $256.67M; Ratio 14.094% shed 2.2-2.5%, while KUAISHOU-W (01024.HK) -2.400 (-3.117%) Short selling $587.92M; Ratio 14.457% cascaded 4.3% to $72.9, being the worst-performing blue chip. MEITUAN-W recently held a food delivery industry forum in Shanghai, where merchants expressed concerns about being forced into price wars.WUXI BIO (02269.HK) -0.850 (-2.640%) Short selling $297.81M; Ratio 19.357% , which previously issued a positive profit alert, closed at $31.25 at midday, leaping 4.7%, being the best-performing blue chip, with a turnover of $1.992 billion. Its same series WUXI APPTEC (02359.HK) -4.000 (-3.784%) Short selling $577.63M; Ratio 37.655% climbed 2.1% to $98.5 at midday, with a turnover of $650 million. WUXI XDC (02268.HK) -2.200 (-3.813%) Short selling $15.38M; Ratio 2.946% , which broke ceiling yesterday, closed at $56.05 at noon today, down 1.84%, with a turnover of $244 million.New consumers softened, with MIXUE GROUP (02097.HK) -7.000 (-1.489%) waning 1.6% at midday. POP MART (09992.HK) -2.800 (-1.138%) Short selling $147.55M; Ratio 6.132% waned 0.9%, while LAOPU GOLD (06181.HK) -18.500 (-2.611%) Short selling $36.36M; Ratio 2.264% stumbled 2.9%. (HK stocks quote is delayed for at least 15 mins.Short Selling Data as at 2025-08-01 16:25.)