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ABC denies report of $50b capital injection(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-02-04 09:26 The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the only unlisted bank among the four major state-owned commercial banks, said on Sunday that media reports involving a capital injection were unfounded. Zhou Qingyu, speaking on behalf of ABC, said that reports that Central Huijin -- a government-sponsored investment company -- would inject $45 billion to $50 billion into the bank by April were untrue. Zhou said: "The statement is not accurate, and it misleads readers." Bank president Xiang Junbo told the bank's 2008 work conference in late January that it was striving to become a large public commercial bank in about three years. ABC reported a profit of 96 billion yuan ($13.3 billion) in 2007, up 64 percent from 2006.
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