On April 14, Ruan Jianhong, director of the investigation and Statistics Department of the central bank, said that in the first quarter of this year, the loan growth rate in the Yangtze River Delta was higher than that in the whole country. In March, RMB loans in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui increased by 124.7 billion yuan, 324.5 billion yuan, 395.7 billion yuan and 131.5 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 22.2 billion yuan, 51.4 billion yuan, 121.2 billion yuan and 39.1 billion yuan respectively year-on-year.
Ruan Jianhong said that at the end of March, the growth rate of RMB loans was 11.4%, an increase of 8.34 trillion yuan over the beginning of the year, an increase of 663.6 billion yuan year-on-year. Among them, the loan growth rate in the Yangtze River Delta is higher than that in the whole country. According to comparable statistics, at the end of March, the growth rate of RMB loan balance in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui was 11.5%, 14.9%, 15.8% and 13.7% respectively. Shanghai's loan growth rate is 0.1 percentage points higher than that of the whole country, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are 3.5, 4.4 and 2.3 percentage points higher than that of the whole country respectively.
