China's Bank of Communications Co Ltd (BoCom) on Friday reported a 4.51% rise in first-half net profit.

China's sixth-largest commercial bank by assets reported a net profit of 46.04 billion yuan ($6.32 billion), up from 44.05 billion a year earlier, a filing showed.

($1 = 7.2882 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Ziyi Tang and Engen Tham; editing by Jason Neely)