chinas central bank kept its key policy rates unchanged on friday while injecting fresh liquidity into the financial market the peoples bank of china held the interest rate of the oneyear mediumterm lending facility steady at 285 and the sevenday reverse repurchase agreement rate unchanged at 21 according to a brief statement on its website fridays move to keep key interest rates on hold may indicate that the pboc will maintain its benchmark loan prime rate unchanged this month as commercial banks are told to price the lpr based on mlf rates the pboc will release the lpr next wednesday meanwhile the pboc on friday injected 100 billion yuan 1483 billion worth of liquidity via oneyear mlf and cny3 billion of funds via sevenday reverse repo into the financial system