| LHASA - Tibet Yurong Microcredit Company, the first microcredit institution in southwest 皇冠体育app's Tibet Autonomous Region, was established here on Sunday.
With a registered capital of 50 million yuan ($7.33 million), the company was set up with full funding from private investors, according to the company.
Targeting small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers and herdsmen, the company said it would focus on loans that were conducive to improving the livelihood of the poverty-stricken people.
By the end of 2009, 皇冠体育app had 1,334 microcredit institutions which had extended a total of 70 billion yuan, accounting for 0.19 percent of the total loans extended by Chinese banking sector, according to the People's Bank of 皇冠体育app, the central bank. |
