摘要
WHILE the Western world is still grappling with the credit crisis that has wreaked havoc on institutional and individual f inances, Chinese banks are increasingly pulling out all the stops to issue more credit cards. By the end of the fir st quarter of 2009 a
WHILE the Western world is still grappling with the credit crisis that has wreaked havoc on insti-tutional and individual finances, Chinese banks are increasingly pulling out all the stops to issue more credit cards. By the end of the first quarter of 2009 a record 142 million Chinese credit cards were in circulation.