Photo taken on Feb. 23, 2011 shows the main office building of the People's Bank of China in Beijing, capital of China.(Xinhua/Guo Zhihua)
BEIJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's bond market had in total 143.9 trillion yuan of outstanding bonds by the end of September, according to data released by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank, on Monday.
The bond balance aggregate includes 24.3 trillion yuan of T-bonds, 34.5 trillion yuan of local government bonds, 33.9 trillion yuan of financial bonds, 32.2 trillion yuan of corporate bonds, 2.5 trillion yuan of credit asset-backed securities, and 14.5 trillion yuan of interbank certificates of deposit (CDs).
By the end of September, bond holdings by overseas institutional investors were 3.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 2.4 percent of the total bond balances in China.
By markets, overseas institutional investors' holdings on the interbank bond market were 3.4 trillion yuan, of which 67.2 percent were T-bonds and 23.2 percent were policy bank bonds.
In September, cash bond trading on China's interbank bond market also turned more active, with daily turnover averaged 1.18 trillion yuan, up 43.6 percent year on year. (Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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