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CHINA PRESS: Some public-private partnership projects have been halted as banks

view them more risky, Shanghai Securities News reported Friday. 

 - Banks are more cautious due to government's tightening policies to control

rapid expansion of PPPs, which are sometimes disguised as local government debt;

 - Banks are often the main funding source of PPPs, not private capital and

government funding, and even private capital also often get loans from banks to

invest in the projects;

 - To get loans from banks, PPP projects need to be selected by the Ministry of

Finance with good cash flow.