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Beijing authorizes RMB 500 billion in local bonds to boost infrastructure investment in Q4

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Beijing is giving infrastructure spending a jolt as the year come to a close.
On Friday, the finance ministry (MoF) announced that it has authorized local governments to issue another RMB 500 billion worth of bonds in Q4, drawing on unused quotas from previous years.

MoF has already allocated the q...



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