中国政府将地方政府债务上限提高到35.52万亿元人民币，并宣布了一项10万亿元人民币的计划，允许地方政府与北京交换表外债务，并为公共支出获得更便宜的融资。中国财政部估计，这些措施将使地方政府在未来五年内支付6000亿元人民币的利息。反过来，随着地方政府传统收入来源土地销售的减少，在世界第二大经济体面临的经济危机中闲置，市政当局债务上限的提高将增加其支出空间。尽管如此，这些措施并没有创造新的财政刺激措施，专门针对中国消费者和生产者的消费增长，这是部分市场在全国人民代表大会常务委员会结束前所预期的。

The Chinese government raised local governments’ debt ceiling to CNY 35.52 trillion and announced a CNY 10 trillion program to allow local governments to swap their off-balance sheet debt with Beijing and secure cheaper financing for public expenditure. The Chinese Ministry of Finance estimates that the measures will allow local governments to CNY 600 billion in interest payments over the next five years. In turn, the increase of the debt ceiling for municipalities will raise their room for expenditure as dwindling land sales, local governments’ traditional source of income, have idled in the economic crisis that the world’s second-largest economy faces. Still, the measures refrained from creating new fiscal stimulus that specifically targeted consumption growth among Chinese consumers and producers, which was expected by a portion of the market by the end of the National People's Congress's Standing Committee.