China News Service, April 24 (People's Bank of China) today released a report on financial institutions' loan investment in the first quarter of 2020. According to the statistics of the People's Bank of China, at the end of the first quarter of 2020, the balance of RMB loans of financial institutions was 160.21 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.7% year-on-year; the first quarter increased by 7.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.29 trillion yuan year-on-year.