Stimulus package increases liquidity and boosts confidence
China DailyA worker counts Chinese currency renminbi at a bank in Linyi, East China's Shandong province. China's central bank on Friday cut the reserve requirement ratio for financial institutions by 0.5 percentage points and lowered the seven-day reverse repo interest rate by 20 basis points, enhancing policy support to solidify economic operations. The seven-day reverse repo interest rate, a key short-term policy rate, was lowered from 1.7 percent to 1.5 percent on Friday, according to the central bank, the largest cut in four years. The move aims to intensify the countercyclical adjustment of monetary policy and support the country's stable economic growth.The seven-day reverse repo interest rate has fallen by a cumulative 30 basis points so far this year. Under the condition of certain capital demand, the RRR cut, along with other policy monetary tools such as interest rate cut, medium-term lending facility rate cuts, open market operations, etc., can help push the actual interest rate down continuously.