Chinanews client on April 3 (Shangguan Yun) The State Council's joint defense and control mechanism held a press conference on April 3. Xu Hongcai, deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, said that since this year, the Ministry of Finance has issued a quota of 1,290 billion yuan for some new special bonds in 2020 in advance. As of March 31, 2020, 1.08 trillion yuan of new special bonds were issued across the country, accounting for 84%, and the issuance scale increased by 63% year-on-year. It is expected to complete the scheduled issuance task about 2.5 months in advance. The newly used special bonds issued by various localities are worth 825.5 billion yuan, accounting for 77% of the issuance. According to the State Council ’s executive meeting, the newly added special bonds issued by all localities are used for transportation infrastructure, ecology such as railways and rail transit. Major infrastructure projects in the fields of environmental protection, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy, municipal and industrial parks.