REFILE-China raises foreign institutional investor quota by $3 bln in Feb

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    BEIJING/HONG KONG, Feb 28 (Reuters) - China granted $3 
billion in fresh quotas to licensed overseas institutional 
investors in February, data released on Friday by the State 
Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) showed.   
    A sum of $900 million was issued under the 
dollar-denominated Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor 
(QFII) programme, with 12.6 billion yuan ($2.06 billion) issued 
under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor 
(RQFII) programme. 
    Institutional investors need to apply for a licence from the 
securities regulator to seek investment quotas from the foreign 
exchange regulator.  
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    For a graphic on China's QFII approvals, click:  
    http://link.reuters.com/fyp24v 
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($1=6.1284 Chinese yuan) 
 
 (Reporting by Xiaoyi Shao in BEIJING and Clement Tan in HONG 
KONG; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) 
 ((clement.tan@thomsonreuters.com)(+852 2843-6392)(Reuters 
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Keywords: CHINA INVESTMENT/QFII