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Posted on August 10, 2021
2 min readLast updated: February 18, 2026
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s new yuan loans are expected to fall back in July after record lending in the first six months, a Reuters poll showed, but are still likely to be higher than a year earlier, as the central bank seeks to underpin the country’s economic recovery.
Chinese banks are estimated to have issued 1.20 trillion yuan ($185.29 billion) in net new yuan loans last month, down from 2.12 trillion yuan in June, according to the median estimate in the survey of 29 economists.
That would be higher than 992.7 billion yuan issued the same month a year earlier.
Chinese banks doled out a record 12.76 trillion yuan in new loans in the first half of 2021, even as the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) sought to cool broad credit growth to rein in debt risks.
China is poised to quicken spending on infrastructure projects while the central bank supports with modest easing steps, as risks from the Delta variant and floods threaten to slow its recovery, policy insiders and analysts said.
Last month, a meeting of the Politburo, a top-decision making body of the ruling Communist Party, pledged to maintain an accommodative stance in the face of an uneven domestic recovery and global uncertainty.
Effective July 15, the PBOC cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks, releasing around 1 trillion yuan in long-term liquidity. Analysts expect another RRR cut this year.
Annual outstanding yuan loans were expected to grow by 12.3% for July, the same as in June, the poll showed. Broad M2 money supply growth in July was seen at 8.7%, up from 8.6% the previous month.
Net local government special bond issuance reached 1.01 trillion yuan in the first half, accounting for 28% of the annual quota, finance ministry data showed.
Any acceleration in government bond issuance could help boost total social financing (TSF), a broad measure of credit and liquidity. TSF growth slowed to 11% in June from a near three-year high of 13.7% in October 2020.
In July, TSF is expected to fall to 1.70 trillion yuan from 3.67 trillion yuan in June.
($1 = 6.4755 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Judy Hua and Kevin Yao; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
Chinese banks are estimated to have issued 1.20 trillion yuan in net new yuan loans in July, down from 2.12 trillion yuan in June.
The expected new yuan loans for July are still higher than the 992.7 billion yuan issued in the same month a year earlier.
The People's Bank of China cut the reserve requirement ratio for banks, releasing around 1 trillion yuan in long-term liquidity to support economic recovery.
Annual outstanding yuan loans are expected to grow by 12.3% for July, the same rate as in June.
Total social financing is expected to fall to 1.70 trillion yuan in July, down from 3.67 trillion yuan in June.
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