# green finance
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PBOC Signals Targeted Credit Push for Tech, Consumption and SMEs While Urging Market-Based Cleanup of Local Debt
The People's Bank of China set a 2026 agenda of targeted credit support for strategic sectors — including technology, green projects, consumption and SMEs — while pressing ahead with market-based resolution of local government financing platform debt. The central bank signalled a calibrated approach that pairs sectoral credit expansion with ongoing risk containment and closer fiscal coordination.
Beijing’s Economists Push a New Playbook: Diversify, Rebuild Confidence and Green the Supply Chain
At NetEase’s 2026 economists’ conference in Beijing, officials, academics and business leaders argued that China’s next growth phase requires diversified, symbiotic policy: bolster household confidence with social and fiscal measures, pivot toward consumption and services, manage US trade frictions pragmatically, and accelerate credible green supply‑chain transition. The forum stressed that technology and AI pose both productivity opportunities and risks to human skills, while corporate ESG work faces significant implementation hurdles.
Beijing Extends and Expands Loan Interest Subsidies to Boost Service Consumption Through 2026
China has extended a fiscal loan interest‑subsidy scheme for service businesses through the end of 2026, raising the 2026 per‑borrower subsidy cap to RMB 10 million and widening eligible sectors to include digital, green and retail. The move aims to mobilise bank lending and central fiscal resources to revive consumption while imposing stricter oversight and faster settlement procedures.
PBOC’s First Targeted Rate Cut of 2026 Lowers Bank Funding Costs to Boost SMEs, Tech and Green Transition
The People’s Bank of China cut re‑lending and rediscount rates by 25 basis points on 19 January 2026, lowering the cost of earmarked funding for banks to encourage lending to small enterprises, technology, manufacturing upgrade and green projects. The step is a structural, targeted easing rather than a broad policy-rate cut, and signals Beijing’s preference for directed credit support while keeping overall interest-rate policy stable.