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China pulls out all the stops to engineer growth

PBOC will step up disposal of bad assets and guide banks to boost lending

Published Tue, Feb 16, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    Beijing

    CHINA is stepping up support for the economy by ramping up spending and considering new measures to boost bank lending. For a start, the central bank issued a slew of measures on Tuesday to increase financial support to its struggling industrial sector, in the latest efforts to counter a prolonged economic slowdown.

    The People's Bank of China (PBOC) will guide banks to boost lending to support industrial upgrading and maintain adequate liquidity for industrial structural adjustment, it said in a document jointly issued with seven other top ministries and regulators.

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