China's central bank vows to support economic recovery

"We will maintain the stability of monetary policy, enhance the consistency of orientation, strengthen counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, increase support for the real economy, and effectively consolidate and enhance the positive trend of economic recovery," it said.

"The global economic recovery momentum is divided, and uncertainties such as adjustments and geopolitical conflicts in developed economies still exist. The sustained recovery of the domestic economy still faces many challenges."

The 's top

decision-making body

last month pledged to step up support for the economy with prudent monetary policy and proactive fiscal policies, including through interest rates and bank reserve requirement ratios.

China will handle the relationship between its credit and bond markets carefully and guide the growth and balanced allocation of credit, the central bank said.

The central bank will keep the yuan basically stable to prevent the risk of the overshooting, it said.

China's yuan

weakened slightly

on Friday as reports of fresh trade restrictions from Washington weighed on the currency, although trading ranges were modest ahead of key U.S. data due next week.

China's low are due to a lack of demand, the PBOC said, adding it expected a mild increase in consumer prices by the end of the year and a narrower contraction in .