China News Agency, Shanghai, April 5 (Reporter Jiang Yu) According to preliminary statistics released by the Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China on the 5th, in the first quarter of 2020, China's bond market issued a total of 12 trillion bonds (RMB, the same below), It increased by 14% year-on-year, and the balance was 103 trillion yuan, an increase of 4% from the end of the previous year. The market scale ranked second in the world. The steady development of the bond market has provided strong support for the prevention and control of China's new coronary pneumonia epidemic and economic and social development.
According to statistics, among the 12 trillion yuan bonds issued in the first quarter of 2020, the scale of corporate credit bond issuance and net financing increased significantly year-on-year, and the financing situation of private enterprise bonds further improved. In the current quarter, corporate credit bonds issued a total of 3 trillion yuan, an increase of 35% year-on-year, and the net financing scale exceeded 1.7 trillion yuan, an increase of more than 800 billion yuan year-on-year. Both the issuance volume and the net financing scale were at historically high levels. At the same time, in the first quarter, private enterprises issued about 210 billion yuan of bonds, an increase of 50% year-on-year, and the net financing scale was about 93 billion yuan, a record high in nearly three years.
Regarding opening to the outside world, in the first quarter, China's inter-bank bond market added 26 foreign legal person institutions, and the net increase in holdings of foreign institutions was 59.7 billion yuan. As of the end of March, a total of 822 foreign legal person institutional investors entered the inter-bank bond market, with a holding scale of 2.26 trillion yuan. (Finish)