China will issue 28 billion yuan of book-entry treasury bonds from July 26, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The six-month T-bonds, with a par value of 100 yuan, will be sold at the price of 98.653 yuan, carrying an annual yield of 2.77 percent. The bonds will be repaid at the par value on January 26, 2008.
The bonds will be sold via the national inter-bank bond market and stock markets between June 26 and June 30, and tradeable from August 1.
This is the 12th batch of book-entry T-bonds to be issued by the MOF this year. China issued book-entry treasury bonds totaling 652.72 billion yuan in 2006, 150 billion yuan more than the 2005 figure.
(Xinhua News Agency July 26 2007)
