Central Bank: At the end of the first quarter, the balance of Renminbi loans of financial institutions was 26.541 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.4% year-on-year.

According to the Zhitong Finance APP, on May 30th, the People's Bank of China released the first quarter of 2025 statistics on the direction of financial institution loans. According to the statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2025, the balance of various loans in Renminbi of financial institutions was 26.541 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.4% year-on-year, with a total increase of 9.78 trillion yuan in Renminbi loans in the first quarter. At the end of the first quarter of 2025, the balance of Renminbi real estate loans was 5.354 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.04% year-on-year, with a growth rate 0.2 percentage points higher than the end of the previous year, with an increase of 619.7 billion yuan in the first quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the balance of real estate development loans was 1.387 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.8% year-on-year, with an increase of 353.5 billion yuan in the first quarter. The balance of personal housing loans was 3.79 trillion yuan, a decrease of 0.8% year-on-year, with a growth rate 0.5 percentage points higher than the end of the previous year, with an increase of 214.4 billion yuan in the first quarter.