Xi to attend welcome ceremony held by Hungarian president, PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a welcome ceremony jointly hosted by Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday morning.

Xi is on a state visit to the Central European country at the invitation of Sulyok and Orban.

Hungary is the last leg of Xi's three-nation European tour from May 5 to 10, which has already taken him to France and Serbia.

Xi to attend welcome ceremony held by Hungarian president, PM

Xi to attend welcome ceremony held by Hungarian president, PM

China's one-year loan prime rate (LPR), a market-based benchmark lending rate, came in at 3.45 percent Monday, unchanged from the previous month.

The over-five-year LPR, on which many lenders base their mortgage rates, also remained unchanged from the previous reading of 3.95 percent, according to the National Interbank Funding Center.

China's loan prime rates remain unchanged