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China’s Central Bank Raises Relending Quota by 500B Yuan for Rural and Small Firms

The People’s Bank of China increased its relending quota for agriculture and small businesses by 500 billion yuan, including a 300 billion yuan rise for private enterprises. The adjustment lifts the combined relending and rediscount quota from 4.35 trillion yuan to 4.85 trillion yuan, with the private-enterprise relending quota rising from 1 trillion to 1.3 trillion yuan. The PBOC said the move will further encourage local legal-person banks to expand credit support for agriculture-related and small and micro enterprises, especially small and medium-sized private firms.

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This is targeted liquidity engineering rather than broad stimulus: the PBOC is directing cheap funding to small and medium-sized private firms through local legal-person banks, which have struggled to meet credit targets. For crypto and RWA markets, the read-through is indirect but relevant — more credit flowing to China's SME sector can support risk appetite and industrial activity that underpins real-world asset demand. The open question is whether local banks actually deploy the quota or park it, as has happened in past relending rounds.

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