The central bank: In December, the interbank RMB market's weighted average overnight borrowing rate was 1.36%, and the weighted average interest rate for pledged bond repurchase transactions was 1.4%.

In the whole year, the interbank RMB market traded a total of 21.8031 trillion yuan through interbank borrowing, spot bond trading, and repo transactions, with an average daily trading volume of 8.79 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%. Among them, the average daily trading volume of interbank borrowing decreased by 12.1% year-on-year, spot bond trading increased by 2.1% year-on-year, and repo transactions increased by 2.9% year-on-year. In December, the weighted average interest rate for interbank borrowing was 1.36%, down by 0.06 and 0.21 percentage points compared to the previous month and the same period last year, respectively. The weighted average interest rate for repo transactions was 1.4%, down by 0.04 and 0.25 percentage points compared to the previous month and the same period last year, respectively.