Experts urge policy steps to help recovery
China DailyA cashier counts RMB notes in a bank in Haian, Jiangsu province. During a news conference on Thursday, Zou Lan, head of the monetary policy department of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said that the current average RRR of financial institutions — the proportion of deposits they must keep as reserves — is about 7 percent, suggesting there is still room for reduction to some degree. China's monetary policy will strengthen counter-cyclical adjustments at the aggregate level, continuing to focus on domestic conditions and giving priority to supporting domestic economic development, he said. Proactive fiscal policy and accommodative monetary policy are needed for China to facilitate economic recovery, support the real economy and create job opportunities, said Yi Gang, former PBOC governor and president of the China Society for Finance and Banking. At the Bund Summit, Haruhiko Kuroda, former governor of Bank of Japan, the country's central bank, also opined that an accommodative monetary policy would serve China well.