China's central bank conducts reverse repos Wednesday

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank conducted 258 billion yuan (36.18 billion U.S. dollars) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 1.7 percent Wednesday.

The move aims to keep liquidity reasonable and ample in the banking system, the central bank said.

A reverse repo is a process in which the central bank purchases securities from commercial banks through bidding, with an agreemen