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MNI China Press Digest Mar 29: Rating, Property, Profits, EU

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The following lists highlights from Chinese press reports on Monday:

  • China's credit rating industry is likely to see a round of mergers and acquisitions as the PBOC prepares a plan to overhaul the industry following a number of defaults by firms, Yicai.com reported. Rating agencies are required to build a rating mechanism centered on default rates and track their ratings timely, according to the PBOC's draft posted on its website Sunday. Credit ratings in the Chinese bond market are often criticized for inaccuracies and lacking distinctions, the newspaper said.
  • China is cracking down on the misuse of loans for investment into the property market, with three ministries issuing statements to probe nationwide banking systems, the Xinhua News Agency's Economic Information Daily said. Investors have been channeling funds borrowed for normal business activities into the housing market, which pushed up levels of business and personal debt and heightened risks of a debt crisis, the newspaper said citing Dong Ximiao, an analyst with China Merchant Bank. Authorities are posting the names of businesses and individuals being punished into credit-rating systems to halt the illegal practice at its source, the Daily's report said.
  • Profits at China's industrial firms surged 179% in the first two months from a year ago to CNY1.11 trillion as manufacturing and demand regained pace, the National Bureau of Statistics said. This compared to the 38.3% decline in the same period last year, the beginning of the pandemic. More than 90% of industries saw profits increase in the first two months and nearly 60% doubled profits, led by equipment and high-tech manufacturing.
  • China and Europe must stay alert and not fall into the "battlefield" laid by the U.S. to consolidate its hegemony using the Xinjiang issue as a flash point, the government-run Global Times said in an editorial. The U.S. intends to divide the world again and cause China to lose the strategic opportunity to open up to the world. Europe would then lose much of the Chinese market and follow the U.S. lead, the newspaper said. China hoped the tit-for-tat sanctions by China and the West stay symbolic and ideological, and do not cross into economic and trade areas, it said.
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