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1st LD: China's central bank cuts RRR by 0.5 percentage points

Xinhua, February 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The central bank announced on Monday that it will lower its reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for commercial banks by 0.5 percentage points, effective Tuesday, the latest effort to bolster growth.

The move, the first such cut this year, aims to "ensure reasonably ample liquidity in the financial system; guide a stable and appropriate growth in credit; and create a favorable financial environment for supply-side structural reform," the People's Bank of China said in a statement on its website.

To boost economic growth, which in 2015 slowed to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, the central bank lowered the RRR five times last year. Endi