The central bank will use unconventional monetary tools such as re-lending and pledgedsupplementary lending to maintain relatively loose liquidity, rather than turning to conventionaltools including lowering interest rates or the reserve requirement ratio, said Zhu Haibin, chiefChina economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co.The People's Bank of China has developed two or three monetary tools to guide short- andmedium-term interest rates via an effective monetary policy transmission mechanism, saidPBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan on the sidelines of the China-US Strategic and EconomicDialogue in Beijing on July 10.Pledged supplementary lending, a lending instrument backed by collateral, is a new monetarytool to guide medium-term interest rates.
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"Previously, the PBOC mainly relied on the adjustment of thereserve requirement ratio, re-lending, central bank bills andopen market operations to adjust the money supply."Now, with the introduction of PSL, the central bank will tendnot to cut the reserve requirement ratio. Instead, it will beable to increase money supply by using this new tool," saidZhu at a media briefing in Beijing.The central bank is trying to avoid large-scale economicstimulus measures for fear these could lead to a debt crisis.A uniform RRR reduction for all banks may cause money toflow into the housing sector and local government financingvehicles."The PBOC is becoming increasingly reliant on innovativemonetary tools. It's trying not to adjust interest rates or thereserve requirement ratio, because these aren't goodmeasures to control the direction of capital flows. So thecentral bank is putting greater emphasis on targetedadjustment by using tools like re-lending and PSL," Zhu said.As PSL requires collateral, the PBOC is likely to use this method to provide targeted support tocertain industries and projects such as promoting affordable housing construction, he said.China Development Bank Corp received a three-year PSL facility of 1 trillion yuan ($161 billion)from the PBOC. The money will be allocated to the housing finance department of the nation'slargest policy lender, China Business News reported on Monday.An unidentified source told the Beijing-based newspaper that China Development Bank receivedlow-cost, targeted funding from the central bank at an interest rate below 6 percent. Earlier thisyear, the central bank re-lent 300 billion yuan to CDB to finance urban renovation, the paperreported.Zhu said the PBOC has taken China's financial policy and economic restructuring intoconsideration while formulating monetary policy. But in the long run, monetary policy should focuson controlling inflation, maintaining financial stability and implementing financial reform, ratherthan taking on other tasks that are irrelevant to the functions of the central bank.
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