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China Lets Banks Lend 5% More This Year
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The Chinese government and the central bank are relaxing restrictions on new loans to help small business and agriculture. Coastal exporters and textile manufacturers are suffering from higher costs and weaker global demand. Originally the central bank had told lenders to stay at the same loans level for 2008 as the level for 2007 which was $527 billion in new local currency loans. Now after a meeting of the Communist party's governing Politburo last week President Hu expressed a new policy of balancing "the prioroties of steady and relatively fast economic growth on the one hand, and at the same time control the excessively fast growth in prices on the other", in a briefing to reporters. Now the central bank will allow a 5% increase in the quota for new local currency loans, with directions to banks to lend more to small business and agriculture.
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