Index of macroeconomic confidence picks up in second quarter

Report: The People's Bank of China released two quarterly survey of the National Bankers Questionnaire, entrepreneur Questionnaire survey and the National Urban Depositors questionnaire results. The banker survey was a systematic quarterly survey conducted jointly by the People's Bank of China and the National Bureau of Statistics.　　In a second-quarter survey, bankers ' macroeconomic confidence index was 40%, a sharp rebound from 14.4% in the last quarter, and bankers expect the economy to continue to turn better in the next quarter, with a macroeconomic forecast of 39.1%, up 5% from the previous quarter, and an end to a 6 consecutive quarterly decline. The results of the second quarter entrepreneur survey showed that the macroeconomic heat index rose 7.8% in the last quarter, the first rebound since the 5 consecutive quarterly decline. In terms of macroeconomic and business operations, index and equipment use indices rose by 4.6 and 2.4% respectively over the previous quarter, ending a 3 consecutive quarterly decline. From the enterprise sales and capital situation, the sales index of the company to reverse the trend, compared with the last quarter increased by 6.9%.　　In terms of corporate profitability and investment, corporate profitability is 10.4% higher than in the previous quarter. In late May, the People's Bank of China conducted a questionnaire survey of urban depositors in 50 large, medium and small cities nationwide. The survey found that 47% per cent of urban residents chose to "save more" in arranging their spending, which rose 9.5% from the previous quarter to the highest level in history. At the same time, the survey showed that residents ' willingness to buy cars has been high this year, hitting record highs of 12.2% this quarter, up 0.2% from the previous quarter.