BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Overseas institutions owned altogether 4.27 trillion yuan of bond holdings by the end of May, reported Xinhua Finance citing data released by the People's Bank of China on Thursday.
Their bond holdings accounted for about 2.6 percent of the aggregate outstanding bonds on China's bond market by the end of May.
On the interbank bond market, their holdings reached 4.22 trillion yuan by the end of May, including 2.24 trillion yuan of T-bonds and 0.93 trillion yuan of policy bank bonds, which took up respectively 53.1 percent and 22.0 percent of their comparable aggregate on the interbank bond market.
By the end of May, outstanding bonds on China's bond market mounted up to 163.5 trillion yuan, including 142.9 trillion yuan of bonds under custody on the interbank bond market and 20.6 trillion yuan of bonds under custody on the exchange bond market.
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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