It also imposed a quota on new lending, telling banks to add no more than 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) to their loanbooks last year, an increase of 19%.

这些举措都向各大银行传递了这样一个信息：本年新发贷款数额不要超过7.5万亿元，即新增贷款率不要超过19%。

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Earlier this month, China lifted its benchmark one-year yuan lending rate by 0.25 percentage point to 6.06%, the third rise in four months.

本月早些时候，中国将基准一年期贷款利率提高0.25个百分点至6.06%，是四个月中的第三次上调。

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Bank lending reached 4.9 trillion yuan in 2008.

2008年银行贷款为人民币4.9万亿元。

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Fitch says bank lending including both the 9.6 trillion yuan formally lent and off-balance-sheet lending was about 11 trillion yuan last year.

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The government set a limit of 7.5 trillion yuan for new lending for 2010 but banks exhausted a quarter of that quota in the first two months and over 99% of it by the end of November (see chart).

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The most recent reports put the amount of these loans at 7.7 trillion yuan, or about 17% of overall lending.

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