Chinese investors have paid increasing attention to star companies in the tech, auto, finance and housing sectors amid robust performance of the Hong Kong stock market this year, according to a report released by online securities brokerage Tiger Brokers in mid-December.

Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd and property conglomerates Sunac China Holdings Ltd and China Evergrande Group ranked as the top three Hong Kong-listed companies followed most closely by Chinese investors , the report said.

The rankings are based on a weighted average of data from the watch lists of more than 1 million users on the brokerage's trading platform and information on individual stocks from its online community, the company said.

Here is a full list of the top 10 H-shares closely monitored by investors in 2017.

No 10 HKEx