{"id":162214,"date":"2026-02-27T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=162214"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:49:03","slug":"credit-agencies-approve-of-budget-bond-plans-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=162214","title":{"rendered":"Credit agencies approve of budget bond plans: govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1845237_1_M_20260226175625.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The minister for financial services and the treasury, Christopher Hui, said on Thursday that credit agencies have given officials positive feedback regarding the government&#8217;s plans to issue more bonds and use the Exchange Fund for infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n<p>In the budget, the government raised the ceiling for bond issuance from HK$700 billion to HK$900 billion over the next five fiscal years&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1845237-20260226.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minister for financial services and the treasury, C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}