In mid-July, the enthusiasm for issuing bonds in small and medium-sized enterprises reached a new high for the year.

In July, the enthusiasm for issuing bonds by small and medium-sized banks reached a new high for the year. A review of the bond trading data from the interbank bond market center by Securities Times reporters found that in July of this year, the total bond trading amount of city and rural commercial banks once again exceeded 17 trillion yuan, reaching around 17.24 trillion yuan, continuing to lead the total data of large and joint-stock banks. Behind this trend is the combined effect of factors such as insufficient effective loan demand, credit contraction, pressure from large banks, and restrictions on cross-regional expansion, which have driven small and medium-sized banks to seek to expand assets and increase profits through financial investments. Two officials from western city and rural commercial banks told reporters that a significant portion of the increase in asset size in the first half of the year, especially in the second quarter, relied on "issuing bonds".