Central bank: RMB loans increased by 1.66 trillion yuan M2 in September, up 8.3% from a year earlier.

I. broad money will grow by 8.3% and narrow money by 3.7%.

At the end of September, the balance of broad money (M2) was 234.28 trillion yuan, up 8.3 percent from the same period last year, and the growth rate was 0.1 percentage points higher than at the end of last month and 2.6 percent lower than the same period last year; the balance of narrow money (M1) was 62.46 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.7 percent over the same period last year, and the growth rate was 0.5 and 4.4 percentage points lower than at the end of last month and the same period last year respectively. The balance of currency in circulation (M0) was 8.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.5% over the same period last year. The net cash input in the first three quarters was 255.2 billion yuan.

2. in the first three quarters, RMB loans increased by 16.72 trillion yuan, and foreign currency loans increased by 74.2 billion US dollars.

At the end of September, the balance of local and foreign currency loans totaled 195.56 trillion yuan, up 11.4 percent from a year earlier. The balance of RMB loans at the end of the month was 189.46 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.9% over the same period last year, which was 0.2% and 1.1% lower than that at the end of last month and the same period last year respectively.

RMB loans increased by 16.72 trillion yuan in the first three quarters, an increase of 462.4 billion yuan over the same period last year. From a departmental point of view, household loans increased by 6.35 trillion yuan, of which short-term loans increased by 1.63 trillion yuan, medium-and long-term loans increased by 4.72 trillion yuan, enterprise (business) unit loans increased by 10.48 trillion yuan, of which short-term loans increased by 1.04 trillion yuan, medium-and long-term loans increased by 8.33 trillion yuan, bill financing increased by 814.8 billion yuan, and loans to non-banking financial institutions decreased by 161.9 billion yuan. In September, RMB loans increased by 1.66 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 232.7 billion yuan.

At the end of September, the balance of foreign currency loans was 941.4 billion US dollars, up 4.7 per cent from a year earlier. Foreign currency loans increased by 74.2 billion US dollars in the first three quarters, 38.3 billion US dollars less than the same period last year. Foreign currency loans fell by $1.5 billion in September, down $1.9 billion from a year earlier.

RMB deposits increased by 16.61 trillion yuan and foreign currency deposits increased by US $103.4 billion in the first three quarters

At the end of September, the balance of local and foreign currency deposits was 235.62 trillion yuan, up 8.7% from the same period last year. At the end of the month, the balance of RMB deposits was 229.18 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6 percent over the same period last year, 0.3 percentage points higher than at the end of last month and 2.1 percentage points lower than the same period last year.

RMB deposits increased by 16.61 trillion yuan in the first three quarters, 1.54 trillion yuan less than the same period last year. Of this total, household deposits increased by 8.49 trillion yuan, non-financial enterprise deposits increased by 2.02 trillion yuan, financial deposits increased by 1.21 trillion yuan, and deposits of non-banking financial institutions increased by 3.18 trillion yuan. In September, RMB deposits increased by 2.33 trillion yuan, an increase of 743.7 billion yuan over the same period last year.

At the end of September, foreign currency deposits stood at US $992.7 billion, an increase of 17% over the same period last year. Foreign currency deposits increased by US $103.4 billion in the first three quarters, an increase of US $12.5 billion over the same period last year. In September, foreign currency deposits fell by $7 billion, an increase of $36.2 billion from a year earlier.

The weighted average monthly interest rate of RMB interbank lending in April and September is 2.16%, and the monthly weighted average interest rate of pledged bond repurchase is 2.19%.

In the first three quarters, the interbank RMB market traded a total of 994.74 trillion yuan in the form of lending, cash bonds and repurchase, with an average daily turnover of 5.29 trillion yuan, down 4.5 percent from the same period last year. Among them, the average daily turnover of interbank lending decreased by 24.4% compared with the same period last year, the average daily turnover of existing bonds dropped by 19.3% compared with the same period last year, and the average daily turnover of pledged repurchase increased by 2.9% compared with the same period last year.

The weighted average interest rate of interbank lending in September was 2.16%, 0.08% and 0.36% higher than that of the previous month and the same period last year, respectively, and the weighted average interest rate of pledge repo was 2.19%, 0.11% and 0.26% higher than that of the previous month and the same period last year, respectively.

The balance of the country's foreign exchange reserves is 3.2 trillion US dollars.

At the end of September, the balance of the country's foreign exchange reserves was 3.2 trillion US dollars. At the end of September, the RMB exchange rate was 6.4854 yuan to the dollar.

The RMB settlement business of cross-border trade in the first three quarters was 5.73 trillion yuan, and the RMB settlement business of direct investment was 4.17 trillion yuan.

In the first three quarters, cross-border trade in goods, trade in services and other current accounts, foreign direct investment and foreign direct investment settled in RMB totaled 4.18 trillion yuan, 1.55 trillion yuan, 1.15 trillion yuan and 3.02 trillion yuan respectively.

Note 1: the data for the current period are preliminary.

Note 2: since 2015, RMB, foreign currency and local and foreign currency deposits include funds deposited by non-banking financial institutions, and RMB, foreign currency and local and foreign currency loans include funds lent to non-banking financial institutions.

Note 3: the enterprise (business) unit loans in the report refer to non-financial enterprises and institutional group loans.