The Internal Loop Risk of Money
In recent years, the rapid growth of M2 in China did not resolve the capital shortage problem for industries at all. The reason lies in the situation that most monetary deals take place among financial institutions such as banks, trust companies and insurance companies. Chinese financial system has the risk of “idling”, with debt chain, bank note and export import trade as three major risk points. Experts also point out that the internal loop of monetary credits runs more quickly in large amount in financial systems.
We are in Ya'an
The death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Lushan County in China's Sichuan province on April 20 has risen to 193, with 25 missing and 12211 injured, according to local authorities on April 23. Two journalists of Economy Nation Weekly went to the earthquake-hit zone immediately and made exclusive reports from the scene. It's still relieved to see that the government is conducting relief work in an orderly way by trying its best to save lives and rescue the injured timely and social groups are also making great efforts in the relief work.
Finnish President: Reform Pioneer
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto is the only European leader who attended the opening ceremony of the 2013 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and gave a speech there. As a Nordic state, Finland is known for its strategic vision and it becomes one of the most competitive countries in the world because it has adopted a series of reform measures to boost the economy since 1990s. This time Finland chooses to cooperate with China closely and hopes to make its way from other European countries.
New Leader of CDB
On April 15, Hu Huaibang, former chairman of Bank of Communications Co, replaced Chen Yuan as chairman of China Development Bank (CDB). The leaving of Chen may means the end of CDB’s restructuring period. Chen was appointed as chairman of CDB in 1998 and helped to pave the way for the commercial development of the policy bank. However Chen left the problem of local governments’ loan worthy of several trillion yuan and the unsolved CDB’s bonds credit. To solve the problems, Hu may reconfirm CDB’s orientation as the policy bank.