FAP, April 18 (Xinhua)-- the central bank announced yesterday that in order to maintain reasonable and abundant liquidity in the banking system, it carried out a 170 billion yuan MLF operation and maintained the winning interest rate at 2.75%. Overall, the central bank's MLF sequel in April continued the trend of "price stability", sending a signal to maintain reasonable and abundant market liquidity. A number of analysts interviewed said that a number of economic data show that the domestic economic recovery is improving, the pace of subsequent credit issuance is expected to grow steadily, and the urgency of interest rate cuts has declined in the short term.