Photo taken on March 24, 2011 shows the office building of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) in Beijing, capital of China.
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Bond issues on China's bond market grossed 5.05 trillion yuan in April, lower than the 5.8 trillion yuan in a year ago, but average daily trading turned more active, reported Xinhua Finance citing data from the Chinese central bank on Thursday.
In April, issues of T-bonds, local government bonds, financial bonds, corporate bonds, and credit asset-backed securities stood at 765.63 billion yuan, 284.21 billion yuan, 769.32 billion yuan, 1.36 trillion yuan and 27.23 billion yuan respectively and interbank certificates of deposit issues reached 1.80 trillion yuan.
By markets, cash bond turnover on interbank bond market totaled 20.3 trillion yuan in April, with daily turnover averaged 1.01 trillion yuan, up 30.3 percent year on year.
On the exchange bond market, monthly cash bond turnover was 3.2 trillion yuan, with daily average at 169.10 billion yuan, up 88.1 percent year on year and 6.7 percent month on month.
By the end of April, total outstanding bonds on China's bond market amounted up to 138.2 trillion yuan.
For foreign institutions, they held 3.9 trillion yuan of bonds under custody on China's bond market, accounting for 2.8 percent of the comparable aggregate.
Their holdings under custody on interbank bond market were 3.8 trillion yuan and they possessed 2.4 trillion yuan of Chinese Treasury bond holdings by the end of April, making up 63.4 percent of their total holdings. (Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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