On March 15, the reporter learned from Jingzhou Central Branch of the People's Bank of China that by the end of February, the balance of RMB loans of the banking financial institutions in Jingzhou amounted to 255.53 billion yuan, an increase of 10.26 billion yuan over the figure in early this year and an increase of 11.8% year on year. The loan increment ranked second in the province, and the loan balance ranked fourth, with a year-on-year increase of 0.3 percentage point higher than the province’s average.

From January to February, financial institutions provided new loans of 5.66 billion yuan to 156 corporate enterprises, with the loan number and amount increased by 17.2% and 11.3% respectively. At the same time, the number of corporate enterprises receiving loans reached 6,190, with a loan balance of 137.8 billion yuan, involving 59 large enterprises (14.6 billion yuan), 346 medium-sized enterprises (45.5 billion yuan), and 5,785 macro and small enterprises (77.7 billion yuan).

In addition, the inclusive loan balance of micro and small enterprises amounted to 42.8 billion yuan, involving 79,421 enterprises, with year-on-year growth rates of 22.5% and 28% respectively, which reflects the fact that the city's financial institutions focus on serving the rural revitalization strategy and supporting the development of micro and small enterprises, actively innovate credit products, increase support for individual industrial and commercial entities and owners of micro and small enterprises, and continuously promote the increment, price reduction and coverage expansion of inclusive loans for micro and small enterprises.