Lending difficulties:-Business lending difficulty in China is a social problem, not entirely attributed to companies themselves.First, a considerable number of companies, especially state-owned enterprises, have weak credit awareness, resulting in low bank credit ratings. With many loans from banks have become overdue loans, commercial banks are reluctant to issue more lending.Second, some local governments, especially grassroots governments, do not have strong credit awareness, either. In enterprise ownership restructuring process, certain grassroots governments even treated bank debt relinquishment as a way to unload enterprise burdens. Thus sacrificing banks for enterprise reform is not an uncommon phenomenon.
Third, state-owned commercial banks still possess less reasonable systems, less complete mechanisms, and less understanding of policy directions. Commercial banks of course need to emphasize financial security, but they should also realize sales and marketing aspects by identifying and cultivating clients. For deposit money absorbed from the society, commercial banks should lend as much out as possible, in order to create profits. If a commercial bank is unwilling to sell products (loans), but instead sitting at home waiting for customers, then this is definitely not yet conformed to the true meaning of a commercial bank.
Inefficient mechanism:-A lot of funds idle within the banking system, while many reasonable financing demands cannot be fulfilled, creating the dilemma of hard lending and hard borrowing. This is mainly due to some existing problems within the system and mechanism of the big four commercial banks (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Agricultural Bank of China).First, lending authority of grassroots bank branches have been removed, resulting in cumbersome loan approval process. Many county-level branches are only for deposit taking, with no lending rights. Some municipal level branches are able to issue working capital loans, but not fixed asset loans in most cases. As many companies belong to county and municipal levels, if they request fixed asset investment borrowing, the application will need to go through the ranks to the provincial head office. When the hierarchical approval processes are completed, the investment opportunity is already gone.
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