BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Overseas institutions held altogether 4.35 trillion yuan of bonds on China's bond market by the end of June, reported Xinhua Finance citing data released by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Monday.
Their holdings accounted for 2.6 percent of the aggregate outstanding bonds on China's bond market by the end of June.
On the interbank bond market, their holdings grew to 4.31 trillion yuan, of which T-bonds and policy bank bonds took up 51.3 percent and 22.3 percent of their comparable total respectively.
By the end of June, outstanding bonds on China's bond market mounted up to 165.0 trillion yuan, including 144.4 trillion yuan on the interbank bond market and 20.6 trillion yuan on the exchange bond market.
By products, the aggregate included 30.9 trillion yuan of T-bonds, 42.3 trillion yuan of local government bonds, 39.3 trillion yuan of financial bonds, 32.5 trillion yuan of corporate bonds, 1.3 trillion yuan of credit asset-backed securities, 17.5 trillion yuan of interbank certificates of deposit (CDs), etc.
In June, a total of 7.09 trillion yuan of bonds were issued in China.
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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