China pulls out all the stops to engineer growth
PBOC will step up disposal of bad assets and guide banks to boost lending
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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