HONG KONG -- China's four largest state-run banks have ramped up lending to small and midsize enterprises whose earnings have deteriorated due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Workers manufacture parts for trailers to be exported to the U.S. at a plant in Jiangsu Province, China. © Reuters
HONG KONG -- China's four largest state-run banks have ramped up lending to small and midsize enterprises whose earnings have deteriorated due to the coronavirus pandemic.