Ruan Jianhong, spokesman of the People's Bank of China and director of the Investigation and Statistics Department, said that the growth rate of medium and long-term loans in the real estate industry continued to rise. At the end of June, medium and long-term loans in the real estate industry increased by 7.1%, 0.2 and 8.5 percentage points higher than the end of last month and the same period of last year, respectively, and the growth rate increased for 11 consecutive months. In the first half of the year, the real estate industry added 628.7 billion yuan in medium and long-term loans, an increase of 459 billion yuan year-on-year. In the next step, the People's Bank of China will continue to give full play to the dual functions of both aggregate and structural monetary policy tools, maintain a reasonable growth in credit and a steady pace, continue to increase support for key areas and weak links of the national economy, and help the real economy to further improve.



