{"id":246034,"date":"2026-01-15T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:28:09","slug":"china-to-cut-relending-rates-widen-credit-support-for-private-sector-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246034\/","title":{"rendered":"China to cut relending rates, widen credit support for private sector and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s central bank is looking to pump 900 billion yuan (US$129.2 billion) worth of additional funds into private and technology firms, alongside slashing key policy relending rates by a quarter of a percentage point, in a fresh round of monetary easing designed to shore up the economy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new plan includes an extra 500 billion yuan for agriculture and small businesses, said Zou Lan, a deputy governor of the bank, at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The bank will also expand its relending programme for technological innovation and industrial upgrading, increasing the quota by 400 billion yuan to 1.2 trillion yuan, Zou said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Relending, where a central bank provides loans to financial institutions, is typically employed to guide private capital towards certain sectors or behaviours.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The one-year rate of the People\u2019s Bank of China\u2019s structural relending tools will be lowered to 1.25 per cent from the current 1.5 per cent, Zou said. The PBOC said the cut of relending rates would take effect on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s central bank is looking to pump 900 billion yuan (US$129.2 billion) worth of additional funds into private&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3810,2102,72,4505,114,123866,18478,113,61,4751,60,5231,28183,55897,78011,3756,61181,66080,107991],"class_list":["post-246034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-central-bank","tag-china","tag-commercial-property-purchase-loans","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-interest-rate","tag-ireland","tag-monetary-policy","tag-national-financial-regulatory-administration","tag-pboc","tag-private-enterprises","tag-small-businesses","tag-technology-companies","tag-yuan","tag-zou-lan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}