Chinese Residents' Savings Deposits Top 8 Trillion Yuan

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Chinese Residents' Savings Deposits Top 8 Trillion Yuan

The statistics released by the People's Bank of China on June 12 indicate Chinese residents' savings deposits continue to increase at a rapid pace. The balance of savings deposits stood at 8.04 trillion yuan at the end of May, a 17.6 per cent year-on-year rise.

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The statistics released by the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, on June 12 indicate Chinese residents' savings deposits continue to increase at a rapid pace. The balance of savings deposits stood at 8.04 trillion yuan at the end of May, a 17.6 per cent year-on-year rise.

Statistics show that the accumulative total increase of residents' savings deposits came to 671.7 billion yuan in the first five months, an increase of 262.8 billion yuan over the same period of the previous year. Of which, fixed term deposits rose by 414.3 billion yuan, 136.5 billion yuan more than that in the same period last year, current deposits surged 257.4 billion yuan, up by 126.3 billion yuan over the same period of the previous year.

At the end of May, the balance of the supply of broad money (M2) reached 16.6 trillion yuan, up 14 per cent over the same period of the previous year, maintaining a stable rate of growth.

The balance of narrow money (M1) came to 6.12 trillion yuan, a 14.5 per cent year-on-year increase., with an obviously faster growth rate, 1.8 percentage points higher than that at the end of the previous year.

May saw a big increase of M1 by 78.6 billion yuan. The liquidity of currency (M1 and M2) at the end of May stood at 36.9 per cent, 0.8 percentage point higher than that in the same period of the previous year, the year-on-year surge of the liquidity of money was the first since September 2001.

At the end of May, the balance of money in circulation (M0) came to 1.52 trillion yuan, a 9.3 per cent year-on-year rise, with the growth rate standing at 2.2 percentage points higher than that at the end of the previous year.

The supply of cash was normal, according to the central bank.

Enterprises' savings deposits saw an obvious rise. At the end of May, the balance of various items of deposits in all financial institutions (including foreign-funded ones) amounted to 15.33 trillion yuan, up 17.4 per cent, with a year-on-year increase of 3.7 percentage points. Of which, the balance of enterprise deposits at the end of the month ran to 5.15 trillion yuan, up 14.1 per cent, or 3.4 percentage points higher than that of the previous month.

In May, enterprise deposits went up 76.6 billion yuan, which was an increase of 141.2 billion yuan over the same period of the previous year, with the annual accumulative total increase of 97.9 billion yuan, an increase of 22.6 billion yuan over the same period of the previous year.

Loans of financial institutions continue to increase.

By the end of May, the balance of various items of loans of all financial institutions (including foreign-funded ones) ran to 11.83 billion yuan, up 11.4 per cent calculated on a comparable basis, with the growth rate remaining basically stable.

The accumulative total loans in the first five months of this year ran to 537 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.3 billion yuan.

Basic money continues to maintain a rapid rate of growth, the exchange rate of the renminbi remains stable.

At the end of May, the balance of basic money of the central bank stood at 4.02 trillion yuan, up by 19.4 per cent, continuing to maintain a rapid rate of growth. At the end of May, the exchange rate of US dollar to the renminbi was 1:8.2766, equal to that at the end of the previous year.

By People's Daily Online

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