At end-November, the outstanding foreign exchange deposits with Chinese financial institutions reached US$135.34 billion, rising by 6.2% over the same period of last year and US$6.57 billion in the first eleven months this year. The outstanding household and corporate foreign exchange deposits amounted to US$81.12 billion and US$45.9 billion respectively, with the former up 13.4% over end-November, 2000, and US$7.8 billion in the first eleven months and US$ 0.72 billion in November. All the outstanding foreign exchange loans reached US$81.28 billion, down US$3.65 billion over the beginning of 2001 and their decline narrowed by US$4.77 billion over the same period last year. The outstanding short-term loans were US$21.39 billion and medium- and long- term loans totaled US$24 billion, down US$0.16 billion (the decline narrowed by US$4.12 over the same period of last year) and US$1.39 billion respectively.