China
Banking
Regulatory
Commission
(CBRC)
CBRC does not regulate the issuance of any specific types of
bond issuer. As the name implies, it mainly regulates banks.
There are only two laws related to financial markets issued
by CBRC: the securitization of Credit Assets by Financial
Institutions; and the issuance of bonds by financial
companies belonging to holding groups.
- The former in particular is relevant
for green asset-backed securitisation
issuance in China.
- The CBRC is also responsible for the
Green Credit Guidelines, implemented
in 2012, which are relevant for green
bonds, particularly in terms of green
standards (see chapter 4).
People’s
Bank of
China
(PBoC)
PBoC regulate market entry, bonds issuance and liquidity.
The PBoC is in charge of open bond market operations and
set a “bilateral trading”11 system. In the interbank bond
market, PBoC also regulate the issuance, clearing and
settlement of certain bonds (policy bank bonds and PBoC
bonds). Moreover, PBoC supervises the credit rating
agencies for China’s bond market.
PBoC also indirectly regulates medium-term and
commercial paper issuance through National Association of
Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII).
PBoC has a working group on green
bonds as part of their broader work on
green finance.
Ministry of
Finance
(MoF)
MoF examines the qualification of bond underwriters, the
securitization of credit assets, and bonds’ custodial
arrangements across markets. Besides, MoF and State
Taxation Administrations set rules about the tax exemption
on interest revenue from government bonds. MoF sets
government bond issuance levels, which are only
constrained by the debt ceiling, set by the National People’s
Congress annually (Liu 2014).
Up until 2014, MoF also issued bonds on behalf of local
governments; however, this is changing, with the pilots for
municipalities to issue bonds directly.
- Green-asset backed securitisation
- Preferential tax policies for green
bonds
National
Developmen
t and
Reform
Commission
(NDRC)
The NDRC supervises the issuance of enterprise bonds. .
NDRC has recently moved to tighten the requirements for
corporate bond issuance (unlisted companies, mostly SOEs)
(Reuters 2014b).
- NDRC has the mandate to promote
agendas for sustainable development
and ecological improvement in bond
markets
- Disclosure relevant for evaluation
green credentials of green bonds