China rolls out targeted stimulus with 1% annual subsidy on home loans

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The Chinese government announced a new round of stimulus measures aimed at boosting lending liquidity for targeted sectors and subsidising housing loans, after markets closed on 29 September. It is the first major stimulus package since September 2024. The Ministry of Finance will allocate housing loan subsidies to eligible homebuyers starting 1 October. First-time homebuyers will receive a subsidy equivalent to 1% per year of their mortgage principal for a maximum of five years. Meanwhile, the central bank expanded the quota of its relending facility for lending to targeted economic sectors such as infrastructure, technology and small businesses by a further 200 billion yuan, or 28 billion dollars, bringing the total to 1.4 trillion yuan. It also raised the share of qualifying loans that can draw on the facility to 100% from 60%, and cut the one-year interest rate on the facility by 0.25% to 1.5%. China has set this year's economic growth target at 4.5-5%, while second-quarter growth slowed to 4.3%, below target. Duncan Rigley, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the measures would likely lift Chinese growth to the lower end of the target range but would not fix structural imbalances, including sluggish domestic demand and heavy reliance on exports. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the modest stimulus would not be enough to change the scale of household and local government debt in China, and that the latest property support measures would benefit lower-tier cities but would not comprehensively fix or rescue the real estate market.

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Morgan Stanley analysts are quoted saying the modest stimulus won't change China's debt scale and won't fully rescue real estate — a commentary mention, not a company-specific development.

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Pantheon MacroeconomicsPrivate± Mixed
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Pantheon Macroeconomics' chief China economist is quoted assessing the stimulus as lifting growth to the low end of target but not fixing structural imbalances — a passing expert comment, not a company event.

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