China finance ministry echoes Xi’s call for bond trading at PBoC

The ministry called for stepping up coordination between financial and monetary policy and “improving the mechanisms of base money injection and money supply adjustment”. — Bloomberg

BEIJING: China’s Finance Ministry says it supports allowing the central bank to trade government bonds, reaffirming President Xi Jinping’s position, which ignited market speculation about a change of monetary strategy.

The ministry called for stepping up coordination between financial and monetary policy and “improving the mechanisms of base money injection and money supply adjustment”, in an article by a study group and published by the People’s Daily yesterday.