PBOC reiterates proactive monetary policy stance
China DailyA teller helps a client with his deposit business at a bank branch in Nantong, Jiangsu province. Efforts will also be made to continuously improve the market-oriented interest rate system and the monetary policy transformation mechanism along with other steps like optimizing the deposit rate regulations and further lowering the lending rates, the report said. The central bank has said that its interest rate policy framework is undergoing reform, which is aimed at gradually increasing the role of interest rates in financial markets and monetary policy, according to Louis Kuijs, head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics. Much aggressive fiscal stimulus and stronger economic recovery expectations in the US have resulted in rising inflation expectations and real interest rates, said the PBOC report. Effects from the US bond yield hike and the possible increase in US policy rates will remain limited and controllable in China, said the central bank report, adding that macro-prudential management of cross-border capital flows should be enhanced.