Xiaoxi Zhang
China Finance Analyst
Xiaoxi covers the Chinese financial system, including banking and capital markets. She joined Gavekal Dragonomics in 2019. She has a BA international finance from the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, and an MA in applied economics from Cornell University.
For Xiaoxi's article archive click here.
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Gavekal Dragonomics
May 20, 2020
The Corporate Bond Crisis That Wasn’t
China’s corporate bond market has not been bothered by the biggest shock to the economy in decades. In this piece, Xiaoxi explains why, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been no surge in defaults, spreads have barely widened and new issuance has surged. A continued bull market in government bonds will be more good news.
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Gavekal Dragonomics
March 23, 2020
Rural Banks On The Brink
The economic stress of the Covid-19 outbreak is all but certain to cause a rise in nonperforming loans. Even before the outbreak, China’s rural commercial banks—its smallest and most troubled lenders—were already short of capital and performing poorly. As Xiaoxi shows in this piece, another jump in bad loans will push more of them into distress.
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Gavekal Dragonomics
March 9, 2020
Limited Help For Struggling SMEs
Chinese policymakers have announced a wide range of monetary and fiscal measures intended to help the smaller firms hit hardest by the Covid-19 outbreak. The helpfulness of these measures will likely only be marginal; however, Thomas, Xiaoxi and Wei are cautiously optimistic that most SMEs can still weather the ongoing crisis.