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Flash talk | Infrastructure funding, local government debt restructuring, and the financial work conference

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It's been a big couple of weeks for China's financial sector.

Beijing held the Central Financial Work Conference, which happens roughly every five years, to plot the direction of financial sector reform. The central government said it would issue RMB 1 trillion worth of government bonds to fund dis...



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