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Update: China Vows No ‘Sudden Turns’ on Economic Policy - Central Economic Work Conference drafting growth targets for 2021 promises ‘continuity, stability and sustainability’ → Read More
Update: China’s Economic Recovery Continued in Third Quarter, Though Slower Than Expected - Latest figure takes total growth for first three quarters into positive territory at 0.7% as economy continues to rebound from global pandemic → Read More
Central Bank Instructs Over $20 Trillion in Outstanding Loans Be Priced Using New Benchmark Rates → Read More
Regulator Tells Small Rural Banks to Know Their Place - At least 90% of village bank loans must go to farmers and small businesses → Read More
Finance Ministry to Transfer Bank Shares to Social Security Fund → Read More
Chinese Investors React Coolly to Signs of Easing Trade Tensions → Read More
China to Include P2P Lending Platforms in Credit-Reporting Systems → Read More
Bank of Jinzhou is reporting total net losses of 5.4 billion yuan ($752.7 million) in 2018 and the first half of 2019, spelling more bad news for the embattled regional lender. The Hong Kong-listed bank’s board also announced a plan on Sunday to cancel the dividends of offshore preference shares from October 2018 to October 2019, citing capital adequacy ratios that failed to meet regulatory… → Read More
Shanghai Tycoon Confesses to Fraud in P2P Lending Case → Read More
China’s overall stock of debt as a share of GDP continued to climb in the second quarter of this year, albeit at a slower pace amid the ongoing economic slowdown. The overall leverage ratio, which measures the nation’s outstanding debt in the real economy against nominal GDP, increased to 249.5% at the end of the second quarter, up 0.7 percentage points from 248.8% a quarter earlier, according… → Read More
Banks Urged to Use New Reference for Loan Pricing as Soon as Possible → Read More
Interest Rate Reform May Benefit Bigger Companies More, Economists Say → Read More
Japan Replaces China as Largest Holder of U.S. Government Debt → Read More
Shanghai Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform Sacks Thousands, Suspends New Business → Read More
Central Bank’s Digital Currency to be Issued Soon: PBOC Official → Read More
Yuan’s Reference Rate Above 7 to the Dollar for First Time in 11 Years → Read More
China Seeks to Stabilize Yuan by Selling Bills in Hong Kong → Read More
Troubled Bank of Jinzhou Appoints New President Amid Restructuring → Read More
Debt at the local level continues to bother Chinese experts. Several provincial audit watchdogs have warned of the risks of hidden debts when releasing reports on local governments’ fiscal conditions for 2018. The audit offices of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Henan provinces raised concerns over poor management at lower levels of hidden debts, including slow debt repayment, insufficient… → Read More
As tax and fee cuts hit China’s fiscal revenue growth, some of the country’s governments are reporting higher-than-usual revenues from nontax sources — including the sale of state-owned assets and sucking up more profits from state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, for example, beefed up its revenues by selling off idle assets such as factories and… → Read More