Effects of China's Non-performing Loans On Banking Financial Statement and Financial Statistics 1.0 Overview of NPL in China ● NPL definition As a matter of fact, there were no so-called NPLs in the minds of Chinese bankers until 1996. The Loan Rule, formulated by the People's Bank of China in 1996, stipulated that there were three types of NPLs, 'overdue', 'doubtful' and 'bad'. This approach underestimated NPLs as it did not include highly risky loans that were still …showed first 75 words of 2710 total…

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