Victor Shih via FlickrBanks involved include the ICBC, the Agricultural Bank of China, the Merchant Bank and the China CITIC bank.
Business Week:
Shih remains concerned about the risks posed by the credit boom, describing a National Audit Office report last month on local-government debt, as “pretty shocking.” In some cases borrowing was between 100 percent and 365 percent of governments’ available fiscal revenues, the office said.
New loans in June were 560 billion yuan, the 21st Century Business Herald reported today, citing an unidentified bank official. That would be 67 percent lower than a year earlier and the second-lowest figure this year. The central bank is due to announce the figure next week...
The government is relying on banks to support its industrial and economic policies. The National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planning agency, said July 5 the nation is targeting 682 billion yuan of investment in 23 projects in western China this year including nuclear power stations, power grids, airports and railways.More in Business Week.
“Credit expansion is the main monetary policy tool in China,” Shih said. “When the growth model is so dependent on investment, the government has to keep spending.”
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