Strong economic data also gave investors confidence in the market prospects, and they believe many stock prices are still under-valued.

Given broad expectations that the yuan will at least appreciate to 7.8 against the dollar by the year-end, the market is likely to remain positive in the medium-term.

The market was encouraged by follow-through interest after yesterday's rebound, as well as the recent strong performance of Hong Kong-listed Chinese stocks.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket. And when he hasn't got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that's the only security there is.

That gave me a lot of confidence making the last eight and showed I had some kind of game. It exceeded my expectations....The confidence, it showed in today's game. The potential is there and I can improve every week.