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Paying for rural development

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The central bank (PBoC) wants financial institutions to do more to finance rural development.

That was the takeaway from a meeting on Thursday between the PBoC, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Ministry of Finance.

Some context: Around 38% of China’s population still lives in rural a...