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CHINA: The PBOC injected a total of CNY34.04 billion in liquidity into the

interbank market via its Standing Lending Facility (SLF) in August, including

CNY28.03 billion in overnight, CNY22.71 billion in seven-day and CNY8.53 billion

in one-month instruments, the PBOC said on its website Friday. The August

injection was more than double the CNY13.98 billion addition in July. The level

of outstanding SLF borrowing stood at CNY22.02 billion at the end of August,

compared with CNY11.07 billion as of the end of July. The PBOC also said it had

lent a total of CNY399.5 billion through one-year maturities of its Medium-term

Lending Facility (MLF) in August, with the rate unchanged at 3.2%. The MLF

injection was also larger than the total of CNY360 billion in July. The level of

outstanding MLF lending stood at CNY4.339 trillion at the end of August, up from

CNY4.227 trillion at the end of July, the PBOC said. The PBOC also injected a

net CNY34.7 billion in August via its Pledged Supplement Lending (PSL) facility

to the three Chinese policy banks -- China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank

of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China -- resulting in a total

outstanding PSL level of CNY2.504 trillion as of the end of the month.