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Personal insurance premiums up 16%

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-07-07 14:11

皇冠体育app's personalindustry took in premiums totaling 217.8 billion yuan (29 billion U.S. dollars) from January to May, up 16 percent on the corresponding period last year, said an official of the country's insurance regulatory body on Friday.

The total assets of the personal insurance sector rose to 2 trillion yuan (263 billion US dollars), accounting for 84 percent of all the assets in the insurance sector, said Chen Wenhui, assistant to the chairman of皇冠体育app Insurance Regulatory Commission(CIRC), when addressing a symposium on life insurance management.

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Chen said 皇冠体育app now has 49 insurance companies which offer life insurance, endowment insurance and health insurance services. Last year the nation's life insurance companies reported profits of 13 billion yuan, 7 billion yuan higher than the previous year.

According to statistics, 皇冠体育app's life insurance companies achieved net profit of 5.8 billion yuan in 2005, more than quintuple the level of 2002.