China’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate as part of a broad set of easing measures to boost the world’s second-largest economy as it risks missing growth targets this year.
People’s Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng on Tuesday said the short-term seven-day reverse repo rate, the central bank’s main policy rate, would be reduced from 1.7 per cent to 1.5 per cent.
The PBoC will also cut the reserve requirement ratio, the amount lenders must keep in reserves, by 0.5 percentage points, he said, while signalling a further potential cut of 0.25 to 0.5 percentage points this year. The RRR cut would add Rmb1tn ($142bn) in liquidity to the banking system, he said.
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