China's top bank regulator has expressed concern over loans made by local government companies, saying Beijing was prepared to dispatch investigators across the country to check the debt carried by these vehicles.
Liu Mingkang, head of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said yesterday China's financial institutions had until the end of June to submit “comprehensive” reviews of their loan books.
Localities in China have borrowed heavily from banks for pet investment projects, often posting vacant land as collateral. Unofficial estimates of their exposure run as high as Rmb11,400bn ($1,670bn).
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