Aiming to further support the development of the real economy and lower real financing costs, the People's Bank of China (PBC) has decided to lower the required reserve ratio for financial institutions by 0.5 percentage points on January 6, 2020 (excluding finance companies, financial leasing companies and auto finance companies).
The PBC will continue to implement a sound monetary policy, keep flexible and appropriate instead of massive supply of liquidity, strike a balance both internally and externally, keep the liquidity reasonable and adequate, maintain the growth of money and credit and aggregate financing to the real economy (AFRE) in keeping with economic development, and invigorate market entities, so as to create a favorable monetary and financial environment for high-quality development and the supply-side structural reform.