China central bank vows to improve financing for private firms

BEIJING, Aug 31 (Reuters) - China will unblock financing channels of stocks, bonds and loans for private enterprises and support their listing and refinancing, the central bank said on Thursday following a Wednesday meeting with companies and lenders.

The world's second-largest economy will use stocks and bonds to deal with risk associated with property developers in a prudent manner and guide institutional investors to buy bonds of private firms, the People's Bank of China said in a statement. (Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo)