Imagine working at a job where you are told to slow down, you’re doing too well.

Over the first nine months of 2009, new lending by Chinese banks has injected $1.3 trillion into the world economy, according to statistics from the People’s Bank of China, which functions as China’s central bank. The beneficiaries have included U.S.-based Southwest Airlines, the Netherlands’ Aercap airplane leasing company, Civil Aviation Authority in Dubai, and Foster’s brewery and Woolworths supermarket chain in Australia.

China’s banks have been signing so many new loan contracts so quickly that the country’s banking regulatory commission recently warned them to avoid the “blind” pursuit of size lest they run into the same troubles as their Western counterparts.

The bulk of loans from Chinese banks are staying in the country, and the central bank has not released an official breakdown between foreign and domestic loans. But bank analysts who have reviewed the public data estimate that the amount going to overseas companies has doubled in the past year to represent roughly 11 percent of all new loans, a shift that would appear to reflect an effort by China to diversify its holdings beyond U.S. Treasurys.