A bicycle manufacturer talks to potential overseas buyers at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou last week. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission said yesterday that it will soon release new rules to further boost financing to small and medium-sized companies. The regulator would support commercial banks to issue special bonds for lending to small firms. The average interest rate for loans made by 18 major commercial banks to smaller firms stood at 6.23 percent in the third quarter, 0.7 percentage point lower than the first quarter of the year.Xinhua