Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website
Subscribe CustomBlackClose

Belt & Road Weekly Subscription Form

download_pop

Research ReportCustomBlackClose

The full edition of the report is available at Xinhua Silk Road Database. You can click the “Table of Content” to have a general understanding of it.

Click on the button below to create your account and get immediate access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Xinhua Silk Road Database
Economy

Economic Watch: China's large open market operations to boost market confidence

February 05, 2020


Abstract : The People's Bank of China continued to release 500 billion yuan of liquidity via reverse repos on Tuesday, demonstrating the central bank's determination to stabilize market expectations and boost market confidence.

BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- After setting a record of 1.2 trillion yuan (about 171.4 billion U.S. dollars) in one-day open market operations on Monday, the People's Bank of China continued to release 500 billion yuan of liquidity via reverse repos on Tuesday, demonstrating the central bank's determination to stabilize market expectations and boost market confidence.

After taking into account the reverse repos that matured in the two days, the net liquidity injection into the banking system stood at 550 billion yuan, including 150 billion yuan of net injection on Monday and 400 billion yuan on Tuesday.

The liquidity boost can lower the interest rates in the money market and the bond market, and will help push down the interest rates in the loan market, which is conducive to cutting capital cost, easing the financial pressure on enterprises, especially small and micro businesses, expanding the scale of financing and supporting the real economy, the central bank said on its official WeChat account.

Those moves were made amid China's efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, earning praise from international organizations.

"The Chinese authorities have policy space to respond and have announced a sizeable injection of liquidity, which should help mitigate the costs to economic growth," the World Bank said Monday in a statement.

The organization said it supports China's efforts to respond including its efforts to maintain resilience in its economy.

Also on Monday, the International Monetary Fund expressed its support for China's efforts to tackle the outbreak, and said it is confident that China's economy "remains resilient."

The open market operations have effectively cut borrowing costs in the interbank market, as indexes have shown.

The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, decreased 23.1 basis points to 2.273 percent on Tuesday.

Stock markets also responded positively in the morning session after the operations.

China's major stock indexes ended higher in the morning session Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ending 0.21 percent higher at 2,752.44 points. The Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.74 percent to end at 9,949.95 at midday.

Scan the QR code and push it to your mobile phone

Keyword: PBOC market liquidity open market operations

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to [email protected] and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Ask Us A Question belt & road login close

If you have any questions, please enter them in the box below.

Identifying code Reload

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to silkroadweekly@xinhua.org and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial