BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, announced on Wednesday that it injected 393.5 billion yuan (about 57.3 billion U.S. dollars) into the banking system via medium-term lending facility (MLF) in bid to keep liquidity basically stable.
A total of 22 financial institutions received the money from the central bank, including 150 billion yuan (about 21.84 billion U.S. dollars) worth of 6-month MLFs with interest rate kept flat at 2.95 percent and 243.5 billion yuan (about 35.46 billion U.S. dollars) one-year MLFs with interest rate unchanged at 3.1 percent. Enditem (Edited by yang yifan,yangyifan@xinhua.org)