AMC Entertainment tried to distance itself on Tuesday from debt concerns around its Chinese parent company that have sent shares in the American cinema chain falling.

AMC has been caught up in the scrutiny surrounding its owner, Dalian Wanda, which is among several Chinese conglomerates that have borrowed heavily to finance deals around the world.

The debt burden of companies and consumers in China has been of increasing concern to the authorities in Beijing, as well as to analysts. They worry that excessive loans to companies like Wanda and the property developer Sunac China Holdings, which have stakes in several sectors, could put the economy at risk.

AMC said on Tuesday, however, that Wanda had not been a source of acquisition funding and that mainland Chinese banks had never financed deals by the American cinema chain.