On November 24, the People's Bank of China Guangzhou Branch held a press conference to release the financial statistics of Guangdong in October. Data shows that from January to October this year, Guangdong's social financing scale increased by 3.16 trillion yuan, accounting for 11.0% of the national increase. At the end of October, the balance of local and foreign currency loans in Guangdong was 24.25 trillion yuan, up 11.1% year on year, an increase of 2.02 trillion yuan over the beginning of the year, accounting for 10.9% of the national increase. The deposit balance was 31.42 trillion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 9.7%, an increase of 2.10 trillion yuan over the beginning of the year, accounting for 9.4% of the national increase... It is worth mentioning that the loan interest rate of financial institutions to the real economy continued to decline, at a low level since statistics. Data shows that in October, the weighted average interest rate of new corporate loans issued by Guangdong Commercial Bank was 3.66%, down 0.92 percentage points year on year. Among them, the weighted average interest rate of new small and micro enterprise loans was 4.21%, down 0.65 percentage points year on year. The weighted average interest rate of newly issued individual housing loans was 4.27%, down 1.39 percentage points year on year. Since this year, the People's Bank of China has innovatively launched carbon emission reduction support tools and policy oriented development financial tools, as well as a series of special refinancing to support clean and efficient utilization of coal, scientific and technological innovation, inclusive elderly care, transportation and logistics, and equipment upgrading. According to the data, by the end of October, the branches of national banks in Guangdong had used the special refinancing funds newly established by the Central Bank to grant preferential loans of 204.44 billion yuan. Among them, 128.7 billion yuan of loans for scientific and technological innovation, 71.06 billion yuan of loans for carbon emission reduction, 2.2 billion yuan of loans to support the clean and efficient use of coal, 2.48 billion yuan of loans for transportation and logistics, and the weighted average interest rate of loans was 3.80%, benefiting 9451 enterprises. Wang Jun, deputy investigator of the Monetary and Credit Management Office of the Guangzhou Branch of the People's Bank of China, said that the bank was speeding up the implementation of the special refinancing policy for equipment upgrading. At present, all banks have achieved 100% connection with 420 project subjects in the three batches of lists in Guangdong. As of November 21, 281 projects had reached cooperation intentions, accounting for 66.9%; 109 projects have signed loan contracts, with an accumulated credit amount of 8.745 billion yuan; RMB 180 million of medium and long-term loans have been granted to 34 projects, with an average term of 6.89 years and an average interest rate of 2.79%. The reporter learned that, driven by the central bank's innovative financial instruments and policies, loans in related industries have achieved rapid growth. Specifically, Guangdong manufacturing loans continued to maintain a good momentum. At the end of October, the unit loan balance of Guangdong's manufacturing industry reached 2.49 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.4% year on year, and the growth rate was 6.1 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year; An increase of 444.6 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, an increase of 167.1 billion yuan over the same period last year. Among them, the medium and long-term loans to the manufacturing industry increased by 342.6 billion yuan, accounting for 75.1% of the increase in manufacturing loans, and the balance grew by 60.6% year on year. The growth rate of loans in infrastructure industry recovered steadily. The balance of unit loans in infrastructure industry reached 5.25 trillion yuan, up 13.8% year on year, and the growth rate rebounded for two consecutive months. Continued loans in scientific and technological innovation and green development