Bank of China said on Wednesday that its net profits rose 12.36 percent in 2013 from a year earlier.
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The profits stood at 156.91 billion CNY(25.64 billion USD), the lender said in a statement filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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Its year-on-year growth rate in net profit in 2013 was 0.96 percentage point higher than that in 2012.
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Bank of  China attributed the profit increase to rising incomes, less expense on risks and improving input-output efficiency.
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Its total asset value hit 13.87 trillion CNY at the end of 2013, up 9.41 percent from a year earlier.
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The bank's non-performing loans ratio stood at 0.96 percent at the end of 2013, up 0.01 percentage points from a year earlier.
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