China said to offer cheap loans to help state firms pay overdue bills

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Sep 29

The PBOC is setting no quota and will disburse funds as needed, sources said, in a departure from its other so-called structural tools that cap the amount available to eligible financial institutions....

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The arrangement, details of which haven't previously been reported, merited a brief mention in a statement made in August by the State Council, China's Cabinet headed by Premier Li Qiang.\nWithout elaborating, it revealed that local authorities could tap a targeted relending facility as the government vowed to \"accelerate and intensify\" the campaign to clear arrears owed to companies. Coming a month after the Communist Party's powerful Politburo called on officials to address the problem \"on a regular basis\", it marked the latest government push to boost business confidence as China's unprecedented investment slump worsens.\nAfter shrinking in 2025 for the first time in data going back almost three decades, fixed-asset investment fell 7.2% from a year earlier in the first eight months of 2026. The drop-off in private capital spending was even worse, with a slump of over 10% in January-August leaving it on track for its fourth straight year of decline.\nPayments in arrears have soared as a years-long housing downturn and slowing growth dented local government income and cut into the cash flow of property developers. \nNomura Holdings Inc has argued that developers are at the center of China's complicated inter-firm debt network, estimating they alone had around 7.8 trillion yuan in overdue payments. \nThe delinquent debt is adding to pressure on companies already having to navigate the challenges posed by excess capacity and fierce competition with rivals. That's thinned profit margins and trapped working capital while further undermining the confidence and willingness of businesses to invest.\nWu Zhiwu, a senior research and development director at CSCI Pengyuan Credit Ratings, wrote in a report last October that the authorities identified 1.8 trillion yuan in arrears owed by self-funded and partially government-backed public institutions, local state-owned enterprises and LGFVs, with a plan to see the debt resolved by providing specialised bank loans.\nProceeds from local bond sales would go towards covering past-due payments of regional governments and fully state-backed public institutions, for which no official tally was available, Wu said. 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