BEIJING -- The Ministry of Finance said Friday it will issue 41.6 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) in bonds on behalf of some local governments.

In an issuance plan, the fifth of its kind this year, the MOF said it will auction a total of 20.6 billion yuan of three-year local government bonds on Sept 14 for the governments of Tibet, Dalian, Guizhou, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Jilin.

It will auction another 21 billion yuan of five-year bonds for the above regions on Sept 14, according to the ministry.

The MOF is scheduled to auction a total of 250 billion yuan in local government bonds in 2012.