POLL-China Oct money supply, loan growths to accelerate

* What: China Oct money supply, loan data

* When: No fixed time, but likely on or before Nov. 11

* M2 growth to accelerate to new record, lending strong

BEIJING, Nov 6 - China's money supply and lending growth maintained a rapid pace last month as Beijing held to its loose monetary policy stance, according to a Reuters poll.

The median forecast of 22 economists is for record annual growth of 29.5 percent in the broad M2 measure of money supply in October, higher than the 29.3 percent pace in September.

Among them, 18 economists projected that yuan lending growth probably increased by 34.4 percent in October from a year earlier, accelerating from September's 34.2 percent pace.

Still, new yuan lending is expected to have fallen from September, coming in at 300-400 billion yuan ($44-59 billion), domestic media reported this week.

Forecasts (Percent change from a year earlier)

M2 Yuan loans Action Economics 29.3 34.5 ANZ 29.2 ~ Bank of China 29.0 30.0 Bank of Communications 30.3 34.4 BNP Paribas 29.2 34.4 BofA Merrill Lynch 29.5 34.6 China Construction Bank 30.2 31.8 CICC 29.0 ~ CITIC Securities 29.5 34.3 Deutsche Bank 29.1 34.5 Fortune Trust 29.0 34.3 Galaxy Securities 30.0 35.0 Guotai Junan Securities 31.2 34.4 HSBC 29.5 34.0 Industrial Bank 29.9 34.3 Industrial Securities 30.0 34.2 ING 29.3 ~ Morgan Stanley 29.5 34.4 Orient Securities 29.8 34.3 Shanghai Securities 30.5 ~ Shenyin & Wanguo Securities 29.3 34.5 UBS 29.5 33.0 --------------------------------------------------- MEDIAN 29.5 34.4 Previous month 29.3 34.2 Year earlier 15.0 14.6

~Not available ($1=6.827 yuan)