Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's four largest state-owned commercial banks, plans to offer shares to the public within three years, according to the bank governor Xiang Junbo.
Xiang said at a work conference that he planned to develop the lender into "a bank in which the public can own shares" by 2010.
Meanwhile, the bank should also be built into a "a globally famous bank" by 2012, and into a China-focused modern bank with global operations by 2017, he said.
The Beijing-based bank, with extensive outlets covering urban and rural areas, made profit of 40.5 billion yuan (about 5.6 billion U.S. dollars) in 2007.
Source: Xinhua
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