Chinas new lending in June drops to 88.7 bln U.S.dollars

    China's new yuan-denominated lending in June fell to 603.4 billion yuan (88.7 billion U.S. dollars), down from 639.4 billion yuan in May, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, said in a statement Sunday.
    The June figure brought new loans(贷款,借贷) for the first half to 4.63 trillion yuan, down by 2.74 trillion(万亿) yuan compared to the same period last year, according to the PBOC statement on its website.
    Total outstanding yuan loans stood at 44.61 trillion yuan at the end of June, up 18.2 percent year on year, but dropping 3.3 percentage points from the end of May.
    China's broad money supply (M2), which covers cash in circulation¹ and all deposits², increased 18.5 percent year on year to 67.39 trillion yuan by the end of June, which marked a slowdown from the 21 percent increase at the end of May, the PBOC said.
    During the same period, narrow money supply (M1), cash in circulation plus current corporate³ deposits, climbed 24.6 percent from a year earlier to 24.06 trillion yuan, representing a decrease of 5.3 percentage points from the end of May.
    The central bank statement also said yuan deposits increased by 7.63 trillion yuan in the first half, down by 2.35 trillion yuan over the same period last year.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 circulation   

n.循环，流通，传播，发行，发行量

参考例句：

• There is a large circulation in the musical public.在音乐界销路很广。
• The ideas have been in circulation for some time.这些想法已经流行了一段时间。

2 deposits   

存放( deposit的名词复数 )； 订金； 寄存处； 储蓄

参考例句：

• Only a small fraction of a bank's total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time. 任何时候，一家银行的总存款只有少量会被提取。
• There are rich deposits of gold in those hills. 那些丘陵里埋藏着丰富的金矿。

3 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。