1st LD-Writethru: China's major lenders lower deposit interest rates

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's major state-owned commercial banks announced Friday reductions in deposit interest rates.

The one-year fixed-term deposit interest rate was cut by 25 basis points to 1.1 percent, according to the official deposit interest rates released by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of Communications.