By the end of September, China's domestic commercial banks non-performing loans balance 504.51 billion yuan

The Banking Regulatory Commission said yesterday that as at the end of September, China's domestic commercial banks non-performing loans balance of 504.51 billion yuan, reduced by 55.8 billion yuan, non-performing loan rate of 1.66%, than the beginning of the decline of 0.76%.　　Commercial banks allocated coverage of 144.1%, up 27.7% from the beginning of the year. The CBRC's domestic commercial banks include state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, city commercial banks, rural commercial banks and foreign banks.　　The latest data show that the non-performing loan balance and non-performing loan rate of state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks and city commercial banks declined at the beginning of the year, while the non-performing loan balance of rural commercial banks increased by 640 million yuan, non-performing loan rate 2.97%, 0.97% lower than the beginning of the year. It is noteworthy that, according to the CBRC's statistics, the balance of non-performing loans of foreign banks is 7.38 billion yuan, an increase of 1.28 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, non-performing loan rate of 1.06%, up 0.23% from the beginning of the year.