Overseas institutional investors buy more yuan bonds in February

Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2021 shows a night view of Lujiazui in Pudong of east China's Shanghai Municipality. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Overseas institutional investors bought more Chinese bonds in February, according to data from the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.

Last month, overseas institutional investors bought 523.4 billion yuan (about 82.9 billion U.S. dollars) in Chinese bonds and sold 507.9 billion yuan, the data showed.

These transactions led to a net purchase of 15.5 billion yuan.

Last month, spot transactions of yuan bonds made by overseas institutional investors totaled 1.03 trillion yuan, down 28 percent from January.