Economics

Beijing Pushes Its Big Banks to Weakest Health in a Decade

  • Bad debt has swelled to a record after virus outbreak
  • China is leaning hard on banks to sustain economic recovery
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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Warning signs are flashing for China’s $45 trillion banking industry, just when Beijing needs it the most to keep the world’s second-largest economy on its recovery path.