中國人民銀行上周六晚發(fā)布消息稱，將從5月18日起，下調存款類金融機構人民幣存款準備金率0.5個百分點。這是央行今年以來第二次下調存款準備金率，下調后，大型金融機構存款準備金率降至20%，中小型金融機構存款準備金率降至16.5%。

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China will lower banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 0.5 percentage points starting May 18, the country's central bank announced Saturday.The cut, the second of its kind this year, will drop the RRR for the country's large financial institutions to 20 percent and the medium- and small-sized financial institutions to 16.5 percent, according to the People's Bank of China.

分析：

在上述報道中，“reserve requirement ratio”（縮寫RRR）意為“存款準備金率”。存款準備金是指金融機構為保證客戶提取存款和資金清算需要而準備的在中央銀行的存款，中央銀行要求的存款準備金占其存款總額的比例就是存款準備金率。“存款準備金率”還有一種說法是“deposit requirement ratio”。

一些相關詞匯：

the People's Bank of China 中國人民銀行

century bank 中央銀行

required reserve ratio 法定準備金率

例句：

If the reserve requirement ratio is 10%, for example, a bank that receives a $100 deposit may lend out $90 of that deposit.
如果存款準備金率是10%，那比如說，一家銀行收到100美元的存款就能把那筆錢里的90美元借出去。

Lifting the reserve requirement ratio has another benefit for the PBOC, which has to manage the huge funds flow into China, mainly from the country's large and swelling trade surplus.
上調存款準備金率還能為中國央行帶來另一項好處。 中國央行必須管理流入中國的巨額資金，這些資金主要來源于不斷膨脹的巨額貿易順差。

The People's Bank of China raised the commercial bank reserve requirement by 50 basis points from January 15, which will reduce the amount available for lending.
中國央行決定從1月15日起，將商業(yè)銀行存款準備金率上調50個基點。 此舉將降低可用于放貸的資金數(shù)量。