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China selling debt to foreign government to fund itself, the day came a lot quicker than expected.
BOK to buy yuan bonds
Global Times | 2012-7-3 0:50:07
By Song Shengxia
China has approved the Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea's central bank, to buy Chinese bonds worth up to 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) through interbank bond market and the purchases have already started, a BOK official said Monday.
"Our bank has got approval from the Chinese government to buy yuan-denominated bonds in China through the interbank bond market. The limit of such bonds is 20 billion yuan or $3 billion," an official at BOK who wished to be anonymous told the Global Times over the phone Monday.
The bank has already started making the purchases and will do so "slowly and continuously" given the large sum involved, the official said.
China selling debt to foreign government to fund itself, the day came a lot quicker than expected.