Economist Say 2010 Optimal New Lending at 8 Tln Yuan
11-13 12:51 Caijing
» China's new loans should be about 8 trillion
yuan (US$ 1.2 trillion) in 2010, to avoid a repeat of the credit oversupply that
happened in the first half of 2009, a senior official with a government think
tank said at an economic forum on Thursday.
» Fan Jianping, chief economist
with the State Information Center under the National Development and Reform
Commission, said China should set a 2010 growth target for M2, the broadest
measure of money supply, of about 18 percent.
» Banks extended a record 7.37
trillion yuan in new loans in the first half of 2009. The rate slowed
considerably in the third quarter, however, with new lending for the first 10
months standing at 8.9 trillion yuan.
From wires