Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market 2025 (Latest Data & Historical Trends)
Annual official data on foreign investors in China's bond market from People's Bank of China annual reports, including foreign investor count, bond holdings, share of total custody, and holdings of treasury bonds, policy bank bonds, negotiable certificates of deposit, panda bonds, and Swap Connect activity where available.
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China's Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market data for 2025. Historical data available from 2021 to 2025, covering 5 years. Data source: People's Bank of China (PBC).
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Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market
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5 data points| Year | Total bond market custody trillion rmb | Foreign investors | Foreign holdings trillion rmb | Foreign share percent | Interbank foreign holdings trillion rmb | Treasury bonds trillion rmb | Treasury share percent | Policy bank bonds trillion rmb | Policy bank share percent | Negotiable cd trillion rmb | Negotiable cd share percent | Panda bond issuance min 100m rmb | Derivatives foreign investors | Derivatives turnover trillion rmb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 133.5 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 61.3 | 1.1 | 27.3 | ||||||
| 2022 | 144.8 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 67.7 | 0.7 | 22.0 | ||||||
| 2023 | 157.9 | 3.72 | 2.4 | 3.67 | 2.29 | 62.4 | 0.8 | 21.8 | ||||||
| 2024 | 177.0 | 1156 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 4.16 | 2.06 | 49.5 | 0.88 | 21.2 | 1.04 | 25.0 | 1858 | 88 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 196.7 | 1189 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 2.01 | 58.1 | 0.74 | 21.4 | 0.58 | 16.8 | 1700 | 87.0 | 5.3 |
About This Dataset
Annual official data on foreign investors in China's bond market from People's Bank of China annual reports, including foreign investor count, bond holdings, share of total custody, and holdings of treasury bonds, policy bank bonds, negotiable certificates of deposit, panda bonds, and Swap Connect activity where available.
The latest row (2025) reports total bond market custody trillion rmb: 196.7% and foreign investors: 1,189.0%. The dataset spans 5 data points from 2021 to 2025, updated yearly.
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China Data Portal (2026). Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market. Retrieved from https://chinadata.live/data/china-foreign-investors-bond-market-annual/
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2026-07-11T08:19:34.411Z
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How much of China's bond market is held by foreign investors?
In 2025, foreign investors held RMB 3.5 trillion of Chinese bonds, equal to 1.8% of China's total bond-market custody balance, according to the People's Bank of China annual report.
Which Chinese bond types do foreign investors hold?
PBC annual reports break out major holdings such as treasury bonds, policy bank bonds, and negotiable certificates of deposit when available.
What does the panda bond field mean?
The panda bond field tracks RMB-denominated bond issuance by overseas issuers in China's onshore market. For 2025, PBC reported issuance exceeded RMB 170 billion, so the CSV stores this as a lower-bound value.
What is China's Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market in 2025?
The latest row (2025) reports total bond market custody trillion rmb: 196.7% and foreign investors: 1,189.0%. This dataset includes 5 data points covering 2021 to 2025.
How does China's Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market compare globally?
China is one of the world's leading economies. Our dataset provides comprehensive Foreign Investors in China's Bond Market data from 2021 to 2025, sourced from People's Bank of China (PBC).