Profit totalled 68.56 billion yuan ($9.44 billion) in the three months through September, compared with 64.4 billion yuan in the same period a year earlier, the bank said in a filing on Friday.

($1 = 7.2606 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Ziyi Tang and Engen Tham; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Susan Fenton)