The People's Bank of China announced an expansion of its re-lending support to increase financing for small, medium and micro enterprises, raising the re-loan quota for agriculture and small enterprises by CNY 500 billion and creating a new CNY 1 trillion re-lending facility for private enterprises. The enlarged re-lending amount for agriculture and small enterprises will be used together with the rediscount amount. The new private enterprise re-lending, established under the existing agriculture and small enterprise re-lending framework, is intended to guide local legal person financial institutions to focus more on key areas and strengthen credit support for private small, medium and micro enterprises, with the term, interest rate and issuance method aligned with the current re-lending for agriculture and small enterprises.