Central Bank: At the end of May, the broad money supply (M2) balance was 35.367 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year.

On June 12, the People's Bank of China released the "May 2026 Financial Statistics Report." The report shows that at the end of May, the broad money supply (M2) balance was 353.67 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year. The narrow money supply (M1) balance was 114.89 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year. The currency in circulation (M0) balance was 14.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.9% year-on-year. Cash was injected by 590.7 billion yuan in the first five months of the year. Preliminary statistics show that the total social financing scale by the end of May 2026 was 458.81 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.7% year-on-year. Among them, the balance of Renminbi loans issued to the real economy was 277.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year; the balance of foreign currency loans issued to the real economy, converted into Renminbi, was 1.14 trillion yuan, a decrease of 4.3% year-on-year; entrusted loans were 11.22 trillion yuan, remaining stable year-on-year; trust loans were 4.67 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.1% year-on-year; undiscounted bank acceptance bills were 2.13 trillion yuan, a decrease of 6.2% year-on-year; corporate bond balance was 35.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year; government bond balance was 100.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.1% year-on-year; non-financial corporate domestic stock balance was 12.43 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year. At the end of May, the total deposit balance was 352.38 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year. The RMB deposit balance at the end of the month was 344.45 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year. RMB deposits increased by 15.77 trillion yuan in the first five months of the year. Household deposits increased by 5.63 trillion yuan, non-financial corporate deposits increased by 1.26 trillion yuan, fiscal deposits increased by 1.91 trillion yuan, and non-banking financial institutions' deposits increased by 5.64 trillion yuan. At the end of May, the foreign currency deposit balance was $1.16 trillion, an increase of 17.5% year-on-year. Foreign currency deposits increased by $103.2 billion in the first five months. The above information is sourced from the official website of the People's Bank of China, translated by GMTEight, edited by Feng Qiuyi.