Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank), the country's third-largest lender by assets, reported a 3.48% rise in first-half net profit on Tuesday.

AgBank said net profit for the first six months of the year totalled 133.23 billion yuan ($18.27 billion), up from a restated 128.75 billion yuan a year earlier. ($1 = 7.2916 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Selena Li and Ziyi Tang, Editing by Louise Heavens)