Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP
Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP
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China upgrading local government financial monitoring system to rein in ‘hidden debt’

  • China is strengthening a national monitoring system that keeps tabs on some 700,000 local government financing vehicles
  • Beijing has launched a number of programmes to rein in excess local debt and risky bank lending in recent years

Topic |   China economy
Amanda Lee
Amanda Lee

Updated: 1:02pm, 31 Oct, 2019

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Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP
Some 700,000 local government financing vehicles are used by provincial and lower level governments to evade restrictions on borrowing. Photo: AFP
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