BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Bond balances on China's bond market amounted up to 148.7 trillion yuan by the end of April, showed data released by the People's Bank of China, the central bank on Tuesday.
The figure represented 128.9 trillion yuan of outstanding bonds on the interbank bond market and 19.8 trillion yuan of unexpired bonds on the exchange bond market by the end of last month.
By products, balances of Treasury bonds, local government bonds, financial bonds, corporate bonds, credit asset-backed securities, and interbank certificates of deposit (CDs) were 25.7 trillion yuan, 36.8 trillion yuan, 35.7 trillion yuan, 32.2 trillion yuan, 2.3 trillion yuan and 14.4 trillion yuan respectively.
By holders, overseas institutional investors held 3.2 trillion yuan of bonds by the end of April, accounting for 2.2 percent of all the comparable outstanding bonds in China.
In April, bond issues totaled 6.21 trillion yuan in China, including 751.85 billion yuan of Treasury bonds, 672.85 billion yuan of local government bonds, 1 trillion yuan of financial bonds, 1.52 trillion yuan of corporate bonds, 25.75 billion yuan of credit asset backed securities, and 2.19 trillion yuan of interbank CDs.
Monthly cash bond turnover expanded 20.5 percent year on year to 24.4 trillion yuan on the interbank bond market in April, with average daily turnover at 1.22 trillion yuan. (Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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