央行决定，自2007年3月18日起上调金融机构人民币存贷款基准利率。金融机构一年期存款基准利率上调0.27个百分点，由现行的2.52%提高到2.79% 。请看外电相关报道：

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) raised lending and deposit rates by 0.27 percentage point at the weekend, the latest in a series of tightening¹ measures by an increasingly activist² central bank.

The PBOC said in an announcement late Saturday that the benchmark one-year lending rate would be increased to 6.39 per cent while the deposit rate would be set at 2.79 per cent.

报道中的“deposit rates”指的就是“存款利率”，“deposit”在此表示“存款”，如：Customers can make deposits or withdrawals³ in any of the bank's branches.（储户可在这家银行的任何一家分行存款和提款。）

此外，“一年期存款基准利率”相应的英文表达是“benchmark one-year deposit rates”。“Benchmark”指“央行制定的基准利率”，特定语境下（如“外汇牌价”），也可指央行制定的“基准汇率”或“参考汇率”。

顺便再提一下“贷款利率”，其相应的英文表达是“lending rates”。