{"id":7381,"date":"2006-05-04T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/04\/china-still-vulnerable-despite-war-on-bad-debt-richard-mcgregor\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T18:43:01","slug":"china-still-vulnerable-despite-war-on-bad-debt-richard-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/china-still-vulnerable-despite-war-on-bad-debt-richard-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"China still vulnerable despite war on bad debt – Richard McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Financial Times (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

At first glance, Beijing would appear to have tackled head-on the mountain of bad debt<\/a> in its state banking system, debt which has built up over some 20 years since the government began opening the economy in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

In 1999 the government established bad-debt disposal companies to sell off sour loans, used bank profits to wipe out more and also pumped in cash from its foreign exchanges reserves to recapitalise the institutions.<\/p>\n

In all, China cleared about $560bn (\u201a\u00c7\u00a8444bn, \u00ac\u00a3305bn) of bad debts in a flurry, an amount equal to about half the country’s gross domestic product at the time the funds were deployed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Financial Times (link) At first glance, Beijing would appear to have tackled head-on the mountain of bad debt in its state banking system, debt which has built up over some 20 years since the government began opening the economy in the late 1970s. 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