--- description: China’s stock markets continued their precipitous slide on Tuesday, falling almost two percent title: Chinese Markets Continue to Head South image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86a3fd3fa74e0efc/69885cb33c1639091d45902a/479880516.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Markets](/tag/markets/) ## Markets Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Chinese Markets Continue to Fall Following Worst Single-Day Drop in 8 Years by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 28, 2015 9:49 AM CUT  An investor observes stock market at a stock exchange hall on July 8, 2015 in Fuyang, Anhui Province of China An investor observes stock market at a stock exchange hall on July 8, 2015 in Fuyang, Anhui Province of ChinaChinaFotoPress—Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 28, 2015 9:49 AM CUT China’s stock markets continued their precipitous slide on Tuesday, falling almost two percent despite state regulators’ frantic attempts to stabilize the country’s volatile indices. Tuesday’s rout came a day after the Chinese bourse’s [worst drop in eight years](http://time.com/3974258/china-shares-drop-global-markets/ "undefined"), sending tremors of apprehension across markets worldwide. At market close on Tuesday, the Shanghai Composite Index sat at 3,663 points — more than 600 points lower than where it was just four weeks ago, illustrating the volatility of these markets and Beijing’s failure to stabilize them. A surge that began earlier this year came to a dramatic turn last month, prompting state regulatory officials to enact drastic policies ranging from interest rate adjustments to stringent restrictions on the selling of shares. “With Chinese markets heading further south on Tuesday after yesterday’s plunge, the question whether Beijing’s intervention is working gets louder,” market strategist Bernard Aw told the Associated Press. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/"},"headline":"Chinese Markets Continue to Fall Following Worst Single-Day Drop in 8 Years","datePublished":"2015-07-28T09:49:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:38:38.983Z","description":"Market interference by state regulatory officials has yielded ambiguous results","url":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/","keywords":["Markets","China"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86a3fd3fa74e0efc/69885cb33c1639091d45902a/479880516.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86a3fd3fa74e0efc/69885cb33c1639091d45902a/479880516.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shanghai Composite Index Slumps Below 3,500 Points On Wednesday","caption":"Shanghai Composite Index Slumps Below 3,500 Points On Wednesday","creditText":"ChinaFotoPress—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/markets/","name":"Markets"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/","name":"Chinese Markets Continue to Fall Following Worst Single-Day Drop in 8 Years"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"China's Drift Towards a More Fragmented World","description":"Editor-at-large Ian Bremmer discusses China's financial growth and the challenges it faces in becoming the world's largest economy.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jZ1U3aiv/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-02T18:26:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jZ1U3aiv.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/","duration":"PT2M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3974451/china-markets-downfall/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```