New loans are a statistical data used to reflect the increase of RMB loans issued by financial institutions to domestic enterprises and residents, which are regularly announced to the public by the People's Bank of China.

The calculation method of new loans is: new loans = loan balance at the end of the current period-loan balance at the end of the previous period. For example, by the end of August 2009, the balance of RMB loans of financial institutions was 38,5241.1.90 billion yuan, while by the end of July 2009, the balance of RMB loans of financial institutions was 381.1.0.