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MOVES-China-Base to start Singapore oil desk with ex-Mercuria trader Li

SINGAPORE, April 18 (Reuters) - Chinese commodities trader and automobile dealer China-Base Ningbo Group has hired Li Chuang, a former senior crude oil trader at Swiss commodities merchant Mercuria Energy, to start an oil desk in Singapore.

Li told Reuters on Thursday that he had joined China-Base Resource Singapore Pte Ltd, the privately controlled Chinese firm's Singapore operation, earlier this month.

China Base Ningbo Group, headquartered in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, began as an automobile dealer two decades ago before expanding into trading metals, agricultural products, refined oil products and chemicals.

Li, 50, said he will start trading oil derivatives before expanding and building a team in the Asian oil and gas hub of Singapore, without giving further details.

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Before becoming Mercuria Energy's Asia head of crude, Li was global head of crude oil trading at PetroChina.

China Base Ningbo Group's website says its annual revenue last year was 126 billion yuan ($17.41 billion) and it had about $5.8 billion worth of trade turnover. ($1 = 7.2385 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Alexander Smith)