BEIJING, Aug. 22 -- China's central bank on Friday announced that it will conduct a 600-billion-yuan (about 84.13 billion U.S. dollars), one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) operation on Aug. 25 to maintain ample liquidity in the country's banking system.

The People's Bank of China said the MLF operation will be conducted using a fixed-quantity, interest-rate-bidding and multiple-price-bidding method.

The MLF was introduced in 2014 to help commercial and policy banks maintain liquidity by allowing them to borrow from the central bank using securities as collateral.