Chinese stocks soared Tuesday as Beijing pledged to ramp up measures to bolster China’s sputtering economy.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index surged more than 3%, China’s tech-heavy ChiNext rose 1.8% and the Shanghai Composite Index increased 1.81% on Tuesday morning in Asia.

Chinese property developers Country Garden and Longfor soared 14.3% and 20.7% respectively. Sunac rose 12.5%, China Vanke was up 11.02% and China Overseas Land and Investment grew 11.39%.

A day earlier, Chinese real estate stocks tumbled on renewed debt fears. The Chinese government cracked down on the property sector’s debt levels in August 2020.

The stock rebound comes after China’s top leaders pledged on Monday to ramp up policy support to boost domestic consumption as the post Covid rebound has been slower than expected.

According to official data, China’s gross domestic product in the second quarter increased 6.3% from a year ago, performing worse than the 7.3% economists predicted. This was a 0.8% growth from the first quarter, and was slower than the 2.2% quarter-on-quarter pace recorded in the January to March period.

China’s top leaders met Monday for the much-anticipated Politburo meeting and hinted at moves to “adjust and optimize” property policy in what the leadership called a “torturous” economic recovery.

State news agency Xinhua quoted the 24-member Politburo as saying “the economy is facing new difficulties and challenges.” That’s mainly due to weak domestic demand, operational challenges for companies as well as “a grim and complex external environment,” it said.

“The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to actively expand domestic demand, give full play to the basic role of consumption in driving economic growth, expand consumption by increasing residents’ income,” according to Xinhua.

“It is necessary to boost the consumption of automobiles, electronic products, and home furnishing, and promote the consumption of services such as sports, leisure, and cultural tourism,” said the report.

Hong Kong-listed shares of internet giants rose on Tuesday. Alibaba shares soared 4.7%, while Tencent was up nearly 4%. Meituan and Baidu shares were higher by 5.7% and 6.8% respectively.

In the electric vehicle space, Xpeng soared 11%, Li Auto was up 4.15% and BYD rose 2%.

“This is a reconfirmation that the [Chinese] policymakers have heard the market concern on more support needed for the domestic economy,” said Xiaolin Chen, head of international at KraneShares, on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” Tuesday.

“They want to achieve the 5% GDP target of this year. The first job they need to do is to create jobs for the labor force in China,” said Chen.

“I do certainly see some encouraging language released from the statement that removed a lot of the concerns of people having a high focus on real estate market, employment, private investment, and so on. So far, the language has been encouraging.”

SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific looked set for a lower start on Wednesday as investors await the release of inflation data from China and the U.S.

The Nikkei futures contract in Chicago was at 26,110 while its counterpart in Osaka was at 26,060 — lower than the Nikkei 225’s last close at 26,167.10.

Australian stocks also appeared poised to dip, with the SPI futures contract at 7,014, against the S&P/ASX 200’s last close at 7,051.20.

China is set to release its inflation data on Wednesday, with the consumer price index and producer price index for April both set to be out at 9:30 a.m. HK/SIN. The data releases come as the mainland continues to battle its worst Covid outbreak since the initial phase of the pandemic in early 2020.

The U.S. April consumer price index is also set to be released Wednesday stateside, and is expected to come in slightly below March’s 8.5% which could signal that inflation has reached a peak.

“The US CPI for April is today’s, indeed the week’s, highlight,” Joseph Capurso, head of international economics at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, wrote in a note.

“The consensus of US economists expect headline inflation to decelerate significantly from 1.2%/mth in March to only 0.2%/mth in April because retail petrol prices have stabilised. But core inflation is expected to step up slightly from 0.3%/mth in March to 0.4%/mth in April,” Capurso said.

Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 climbed about 0.25% to 4,001.05 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.98% to 11,737.67. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged, falling 84.96 points — or 0.26% — to 32,160.74.

The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 103.92 — above levels below 103.8 seen earlier in the week.

The Japanese yen traded at 130.34 per dollar, stronger as compared with levels above 130.5 seen against the greenback earlier this week. The Australian dollar changed hands at $0.6937 as it struggles for a bounce after declining from above $0.70 earlier in the week.

SINGAPORE — Shares in Chinese tech firms mostly rose in mixed Asia-Pacific trading on Monday, with oil prices falling more than 3%.

The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong advanced 1.05%.

Shares of Meituan soared 10.89% while Tencent climbed 2.86%, as of the final hour of trading in Hong Kong on Monday.

Meituan on Friday posted better-than-expected revenue for the last three months of 2021. The company’s revenue for the fourth quarter came in at 49.52 billion yuan ($7.78 billion), above mean analyst expectations for a 49.2 billion yuan print, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon.

The Hang Seng Tech index remained in positive territory, rising 2.13%. Some Chinese tech stocks, however, slipped: Baidu edged 0.63% lower while JD.com dropped 3.06%.

“Even if you look now, where we see very significant and sharp falls so that valuations now are at much more reasonable levels, I think it’s still quite difficult for investors … to really build the courage to go back in at these levels,” Mark Konyn, group chief investment officer at AIA, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday.

The broader Asia-Pacific markets struggled for direction on Monday.

Mainland China’s Shanghai composite gained 0.07% to close at 3,214.50 while the Shenzhen component shed 1.017% to 11,949.94.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed fractionally higher at 7,412.40. Singapore’s Straits Times index also climbed 0.38% in afternoon trade.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific outside Japan traded 0.11% lower.

Oil prices declined in the afternoon of Asia trading hours, with international benchmark Brent crude futures down 3.52% to $116.40 per barrel. U.S. crude futures slipped 3.97% to $109.38 per barrel.

The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 99.2 following a recent climb from below 98.7.

The Japanese yen traded at 123.61 per dollar, weaker than levels below 120 seen against the greenback last week. The Australian dollar was at $0.7512, having risen from below $0.74 last week.

Correction: This article was updated to accurately reflect the moves of the Japanese yen during Asia trading hours on Monday.