Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2021 shows a photovoltaic power base in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City of east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China Development Bank (CDB) has boosted its financial support for clean energy development in the first quarter of this year (Q1).
According to the CDB, it had issued 109 billion yuan (about 17.12 billion U.S. dollars) of loans in the energy sector to support the clean energy development and the green-oriented transition of traditional energy.
During this period, a total of 76.5 billion yuan of loans were granted for the development of clean energy including nuclear power, wind power and photovoltaic power.
Meanwhile, outstanding loans by the end of Q1 in the clean energy sector went up 48.8 billion yuan from the end of last year, according to the bank.