China PBOC Loan Prime Rate (1-year LPR / 贷款市场报价利率)
China PBOC Loan Prime Rate (1-year LPR / 贷款市场报价利率) is 3 percent, in force since 20 May 2025. It was 3.1 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 26 Aug 2026.
Loan Prime Rate (贷款市场报价利率) published monthly — typically on the 20th, or the next working day — by the National Interbank Funding Centre (全国银行间同业拆借中心) on authorisation of the People's Bank of China. The 1-year LPR is served as the numeric value; the over-5-year LPR (mortgage benchmark) is recorded in notes when published alongside. This is the quoted lending benchmark for new RMB bank loans, not the PBOC's 7-day reverse-repo operation rate.
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| Current value | 3 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2025-05-20 |
| Official source | 中国人民银行授权全国银行间同业拆借中心公布，2026年8月20日贷款市场报价利率（LPR）为：1年期LPR为3.0%，5年期以上LPR为3.5%。以上LPR在下一次发布LPR之前有效。 (PBOC-authorised National Interbank Funding Centre LPR announcement, 20 Aug 2026) |
| Last verified | 2026-08-26 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
SERVED VALUE is the 1-year LPR (3.0%). The same 20 Aug 2026 PBOC announcement set the over-5-year LPR at 3.5% (mortgage benchmark). Both tenors have been unchanged since the 20 May 2025 fixing, which printed 1-year 3.0% and over-5-year 3.5% (official PBOC announcement https://www.pbc.gov.cn/zhengcehuobisi/125207/125213/125440/3876551/5714282/index.html, HTTP 200). The immediately preceding official fixing we fetched (21 Apr 2025) was 1-year 3.1% / over-5-year 3.6% (https://www.pbc.gov.cn/zhengcehuobisi/125207/125213/125440/3876551/5677604/index.html, HTTP 200). LPR is published on the 20th of each month or the next working day and remains valid until the next publication. DO NOT confuse with the PBOC 7-day reverse-repo operation rate (1.40% since 8 May 2025), which the PBOC treats as its main open-market policy rate; this official-slice series serves the LPR lending benchmark.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-21 | 3.1 | 中国人民银行授权全国银行间同业拆借中心公布，2025年4月21日贷款市场报价利率（LPR）为：1年期LPR为3.1%，5… |
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