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Bonds worth $523.1b issued in September

China issued bonds worth 3.7 trillion yuan ($523.1 billion) last month, the country's central bank said on Monday. Treasury bonds issued reached 358.19 billion yuan in September, while local government bonds issued stood at 219.58 billion yuan, data from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) showed. Spot transactions of bonds in the inter-bank bond market totaled 19.1 trillion yuan last month, according to the PBOC.

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