Sept 17 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose on Friday after the central bank in top consumer China infused liquidity to ease nerves caused by property giant China Evergrande Group's debt woes.

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange rose 0.4% to $9,406 a tonne by 0804 GMT, while the most-traded October copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange closed down 1.3% to 69,270 yuan ($10,735.37) a tonne.

China's central bank injected 100 billion yuan through reverse repo operations into the banking system, resuming fresh fund injections via the 14-day tenor for the first time in more than seven months.

The move helps "calm markets amid China Evergrande woes," said commodities broker Anna Stablum of Marex Spectron, referring to the debt crisis that Goldman Sachs said could spill over risks to the broader Chinese property sector.

Copper and some base metals are widely used in construction of buildings.

Also supporting copper prices were ShFE inventories of the metal falling to their lowest level since August 2009 at 54,341 tonnes.

FUNDAMENTALS

* LME lead advanced 0.2% to $2,212 a tonne and zinc edged up 0.3% at $3,091 a tonne.

* ShFE nickel fell 2.6% to 143,490 yuan a tonne, zinc advanced 0.8% to 22,780 yuan a tonne, tin increased 0.6% to 260,300 yuan a tonne and aluminium edged down 0.3% to 22,610 yuan a tonne.

* A Japanese aluminium buyer has agreed to pay a global producer a premium of $220 per tonne over the benchmark price for shipments in October to December, up 19% from the current quarter to reflect higher overseas premiums, two sources said.

* Yunnan Aluminium, a unit of China's state-run metals group Chinalco, has cut its 2021 aluminium output target by over 500,000 tonnes, or almost 18%, after local government moved to keep limits on production for the rest of the year.

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($1 = 6.4525 yuan) (Reporting by Mai Nguyen in Hanoi; editing by Uttaresh.V and Alexander Smith)