China News Service, Beijing, January 29 (Reporter Xia Bin) The People's Bank of China announced on the 29th that as of the end of 2023, the custody balance of overseas institutions in China's bond market was 3.72 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), accounting for 3.72 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below) of China's bonds. The proportion of market custody balance is 2.4%. Among them, the custody balance of overseas institutions in the inter-bank bond market is 3.67 trillion yuan.

  Broken down by bond type, foreign institutions held 2.29 trillion yuan in treasury bonds, accounting for 62.4%, and policy financial bonds held 0.80 trillion yuan, accounting for 21.8%.

  Data released by the central bank show that in 2023, the scale of the bond market will grow steadily, and the overall yield of government bonds will fluctuate downward; the high-level opening up of the bond market will steadily advance, and the investor structure will remain diversified; the transaction volume of the money market will continue to increase, and the inter-bank derivatives market will Trading volume maintained growth; the main stock market indexes fell.

  Looking specifically at the bond market, in 2023, a total of 71.0 trillion yuan of bonds of various types will be issued in the bond market, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%. Among them, 61.4 trillion yuan of bonds were issued in the inter-bank bond market and 9.6 trillion yuan of bonds were issued in the exchange market. In 2023, treasury bonds will be issued at 11.0 trillion yuan, local government bonds will be issued at 9.3 trillion yuan, financial bonds will be issued at 10.2 trillion yuan, corporate credit bonds will be issued at 14.0 trillion yuan, credit asset-backed securities will be issued at 348.52 billion yuan, and interbank certificates of deposit will be issued at 25.8 trillion yuan. Trillion yuan.

  As of the end of 2023, the bond market custody balance was 157.9 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.1%, of which the inter-bank bond market custody balance was 137.0 trillion yuan and the exchange market custody balance was 20.9 trillion yuan. The over-the-counter bond custody balance of commercial banks was 57.75 billion yuan. (over)