The central bank's first quarter questionnaire survey showed that-

Residents' willingness to invest increases

  Beijing News (Reporter Yao Jin) The People's Bank of China recently released a survey report on urban depositors in the first quarter of 2021, showing that residents' income experience, employment experience, and investment willingness have all increased month-on-month, while residents' willingness to consume and save have declined slightly.

  Specifically, the income perception index for this quarter was 51.7%, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The income confidence index was 51.0%, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the previous quarter.

The employment experience index for this quarter was 43.9%, an increase of 2.4 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The employment expectation index was 53.1%, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the previous quarter.

  Residents who tend to "consume more" accounted for 22.3%, a decrease of 1.0 percentage point from the previous quarter; those who tend to "save more" accounted for 49.1%, a decrease of 2.3 percentage points from the previous quarter; those who tend to "invest more" Residents accounted for 28.6%, an increase of 3.3 percentage points from the previous quarter.

  The central bank also released the entrepreneur questionnaire report for the first quarter of 2021, showing that the entrepreneur macroeconomic fever index was 38.9%, an increase of 4.5 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 26.5 percentage points from the same period last year.

The export order index was 41.8%, a decrease of 4.6 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 22.7 percentage points from the same period last year.

The domestic order index was 45.8%, a decrease of 9.3 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 28.3 percentage points from the same period last year.

The business climate index was 56.3%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 26.0 percentage points from the same period last year.

The profit index was 53.1%, a decrease of 6.7 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 30.8 percentage points from the same period last year.

  In addition, the central bank also released a banker survey report for the first quarter of 2021.

The report shows that the bankers’ macroeconomic heat index was 42.4%, an increase of 8.8 percentage points from the previous quarter.

For the next quarter, the bankers’ macroeconomic heat expectation index was 48.3%, 5.9 percentage points higher than this quarter.

  It is worth noting that the overall loan demand index was 77.5%, an increase of 5.9 percentage points from the previous quarter and an increase of 11.6 percentage points from the same period last year.