BEIJING – Not long after the United States Federal Reserve Board announced its second round of “quantitative easing” (known as QE2), the People’s Bank of China (PBC), China’s central bank, announced two increases of 0.5 percentage points in the required reserve ratio (RRR) of bank deposits. The RRR now stands at 18.5%, a historic high, even in global terms.
发自北京——就在美联储宣布实施第二轮“量化宽松”政策之后，中国人民银行（下称“人行”）旋即连续两次上调存款类金融机构人民币存款准备金率0.5个百分点。目前该比率为18.5%，不但创下了建国以来的新高，在世界范围内也是罕见的。