BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Overseas institutional investors held 3.4 trillion yuan of bonds by the end of January, reported Xinhua Finance citing data released by the Chinese central bank on Thursday.
Their holdings accounted for 2.3 percent of the 144.9 trillion yuan of bonds outstanding on China's bond market by the end of January.
On the interbank bond market, their holdings reached 3.3 trillion yuan. By products, they possessed 2.2 trillion yuan of T-bond holdings and 0.7 trillion yuan of policy financial bonds, taking up respectively 67.9 percent and 22.0 percent of their aggregate bond holdings on China's bond market.
By the end of January, bonds under custody on China's interbank bond market and exchange bond market stood respectively at 125.5 trillion yuan and 19.4 trillion yuan.
In January, China's bond issues grossed 3.76835 trillion yuan, including 643 billion yuan of T-bond issues, 643.49 billion yuan of local government bond issues, 529.99 billion yuan of financial bond issues, 859.02 billion yuan of corporate bonds, 16.24 billion yuan of credit asset-backed securities, and 1.05722 trillion yuan of interbank negotiable certificates of deposit (CDs). (Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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