An investor is seen at a stock market in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, Jan 2, 2018. (SU YANG / XINHUA)

BEIJING - Assets under management of public offering funds in China climbed to 25.56 trillion yuan ($4 trillion) by the end of last year, data from the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) showed.

China had 137 asset management companies at the end of 2021, including 45 foreign-invested companies and 92 domestic companies, according to AMAC, an industry body supervised by China's securities regulator.

At the end of 2021, 12 securities firms or asset management subsidiaries under securities firms and two insurance asset management companies had qualifications for the management of public offering funds, AMAC data showed.

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