China’s Chongqing to step up support for real economy By Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The sprawling southwestern Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has launched extra measures to bolster the real economy amid rising strain from Beijing to step up support for the nation’s personal sector as financial development slows.

The metropolis has introduced 18 coverage measures to additional improve the healthy growth of enterprises within the real economy, and can present extra fiscal and monetary support, decrease company prices and make it simpler for corporations to do enterprise, the official Chongqing Daily reported on Saturday.

Chongqing will set up a reduction fund of at the least 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) to assist personal corporations affected by short-term liquidity issues, the newspaper added.

Other provinces and areas have additionally sought to present extra support for the personal sector, with the world’s second-largest economy dropping momentum aggravated by an ongoing commerce dispute with the United States.

The northeast rustbelt province of Liaoning additionally launched 16 measures to assist revitalize personal corporations, and pledged to implement tax cuts, the official Xinhua information company reported on Saturday.

China’s manufacturing facility exercise contracted for the primary time in additional than two years in December, highlighting the challenges dealing with Beijing because it seeks to finish tit-for-tat commerce tariffs with Washington and scale back the danger of a sharper financial slowdown.

In efforts to increase liquidity within the economy, China’s central financial institution mentioned on Friday it was slicing the amount of money that banks have to maintain as reserves for the fifth time in a 12 months.