Factbox: Chinese RRR and interest rate changes

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank on Sunday cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves, the second industry-wide cut in two months, adding more liquidity to the world's second-biggest economy to help spur bank lending and combat slowing growth. The People's Bank of China lowered the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for all banks by 100 basis points - the deepest single reduction since the depth of the global crisis in 2008. Below are changes in China's required reserve ratios and benchmark interest rates since 2006. REQUIRED RESERVE RATIO (for big banks) announced change new ratio 19/04/15 -100 bp 18.5 pct 04/02/15 -50 bp 19.5 pct 12/05/12 -50 bp 20.0 pct 18/02/12 -50 bp 20.5 pct 30/11/11 -50 bp 21.0 pct 14/06/11 +50 bp 21.5 pct 12/05/11 +50 bp 21.0 pct 17/04/11 +50 bp 20.5 pct 18/03/11 +50 bp 20.0 pct 18/02/11 +50 bp 19.5 pct 14/01/11 +50 bp 19.0 pct 10/12/10 +50 bp 18.5 pct 19/11/10 +50 bp 18.0 pct 10/11/10 +50 bp 17.5 pct 02/05/10 +50 bp 17.0 pct 12/02/10 +50 bp 16.5 pct 12/01/10 +50 bp 16.0 pct 22/12/08 -50 bp 15.5 pct 26/11/08 -100 bp 16.0 pct 08/10/08 -50 bp 17.0 pct 07/06/08 +100 bp 17.5 pct 12/05/08 +50 bp 16.5 pct 16/04/08 +50 bp 16.0 pct 18/03/08 +50 bp 15.5 pct 16/01/08 +50 bp 15.0 pct 08/12/07 +100 bp 14.5 pct 10/11/07 +50 bp 13.5 pct 13/10/07 +50 bp 13.0 pct 06/09/07 +50 bp 12.5 pct 15/08/07 +50 bp 12.0 pct 05/06/07 +50 bp 11.5 pct 15/05/07 +50 bp 11.0 pct 16/04/07 +50 bp 10.5 pct 25/02/07 +50 bp 10.0 pct 15/01/07 +50 bp 9.5 pct 15/11/06 +50 bp 9.0 pct 15/08/06 +50 bp 8.5 pct 05/07/06 +50 bp 8.0 pct INTEREST RATES one-year deposit one-year lending announced change new rate change new rate 28/02/15 -25 bp 2.50 pct -25 bp 5.35 pct 21/11/14 -25 bp 2.75 pct -40 bp 5.6 pct 05/07/12 -25 bp 3.0 pct -31 bp 6.0 pct 07/06/12 -25 bp 3.25 pct -25 bp 6.31 pct 06/07/11 +25 bp 3.50 pct +25 bp 6.56 pct 05/04/11 +25 bp 3.25 pct +25 bp 6.31 pct 08/02/11 +25 bp 3.00 pct +25 bp 6.06 pct 25/12/10 +25 bp 2.75 pct +25 bp 5.81 pct 19/10/10 +25 bp 2.50 pct +25 bp 5.56 pct 22/12/08 -27 bp 2.25 pct -27 bp 5.31 pct 26/11/08 -108 bp 2.52 pct -108 bp 5.58 pct 29/10/08 -27 bp 3.60 pct -27 bp 6.66 pct 08/10/08 -27 bp 3.87 pct -27 bp 6.93 pct 15/09/08 0 bp 4.14 pct -27 bp 7.20 pct 20/12/07 +27 bp 4.14 pct +18 bp 7.47 pct 14/09/07 +27 bp 3.87 pct +27 bp 7.29 pct 21/08/07 +27 bp 3.60 pct +18 bp 7.02 pct 20/07/07 +27 bp 3.33 pct +27 bp 6.84 pct 18/05/07 +27 bp 3.06 pct +18 bp 6.57 pct 17/03/07 +27 bp 2.79 pct +27 bp 6.39 pct 18/08/06 +27 bp 2.52 pct +27 bp 6.12 pct 27/04/06 0 bp 2.25 pct +27 bp 5.85 pct (Reporting by Beijing economics team; Editing by Will Waterman)