The benchmark Hang Seng index closed up 335.34 points, or 1.73 percent, at 19,766.71 points, after trading between a day high of 19,910.06 and a day low of 19,710.86 points.

Turnover totaled 71.67 billion HK dollars (9.2 billion U.S. dollars) compared with Thursday's 68.97 billion HK dollars.

The H-share index, which track the overall performance of 44 major Chinese mainland State-owned enterprises, outperformed the Hang Seng index by rising nearly 300 points, or 2.67 percent, to end at 11,508.49.

The mainland's two leading oil companies, Sinopec and PetroChina, both H-share heavyweights which are among the 43 constituent stocks of the Hang Seng Index, gained 2.47 percent and 3.54 percent, respectively.

Sinopec ended at 6.23 HK dollars per share while PetroChina closed at 8.49 HK dollars. Another oil firm CNOOC, the HK-listed unit of China's National Offshore Oil Corp., gained 2.66 percent to 12.34 HK dollars.

Chalco, China's top aluminum producer, moved up 3.4 percent to 6.69 HK dollars. Major coal producer China Shenhua, also one of the 43 constituent stocks of the Hang Seng Index, rose 2.8 percent to 31.25 HK dollars.

The Chinese mainland's financial heavyweights also rose in the day.

Shares of the ICBC, the world's largest bank by market value, edged up 1.23 percent to 5.76 HK dollars. China Construction Bank rose 1.79 percent to 6.27 HK dollars. Another major lender, Bank of China, gained 1.3 percent to close at 3.89 HK dollars.

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, gained 1.04 percent to 73.10 HK dollars. Shares of the HSBC, one of the world's biggest banks, rose 2.14 percent to 70.60 HK dollars.

Suicide-plagued Foxconn International, the only constituent stock from China's Taiwan, lost 2.77 percent to 5.77 HK dollars.

Shares of UK's insurer Prudential PLC gained 4.24 percent to end at 61.50 HK dollars after it confirmed that it was in talks with the American International Group (AIG) over a possible takeover of AIG's Asian unit American International Assurance (AIA) .

BYD Company, a rising auto maker in the Chinese mainland, soared 9.4 percent to close at 64 HK dollars in the day after reports that it set up 50-50 joint venture with Germany's Daimler AG to develop all-electric car for the Chinese market.

Cathay Pacific edged up 1.76 percent to end at 15.02 HK dollars though it was facing a fine about 26 million HK dollars by the Fair Trade Commission of the Republic of Korea for alleged "air cargo pricing practices". (1 U.S. dollar equals to 7.788 HK dollars)