1 John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8 Canada.
2 School of Business and Economics, Moravian University, 1200 Main St, Bethlehem, PA 18018 USA.
3 Trent School of Business at Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 0G2 Canada.

We examine the resilience of Chinese banks during the COVID-19 pandemic by investigating non-performing loan (NPL) ratios. We find that despite the reduction in the growth rate of total bank lending, bank NPL ratios significantly increase during the COVID-19 crisis. Banks with high-quality capital are more effective in controlling their NPL ratios during the Crisis. Big Five banks, state-owned banks and domestic banks have lower NPL ratios than their counterparts during the Crisis.