The ultimate goal of China's exchange rate reform is to make the yuan a fully convertible currency, Yi Gang, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), said Friday.
There is no foundation for the yuan to move sharply and China can maintain a flexible exchange rate mechanism, making the currency stand at a basically reasonable and balanced level, a senior central bank official said on Friday.
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A senior Chinese central bank official Friday stated that China's exchange rate reform was moving at a proper pace and in the proper direction, with obvious benefits.
The ultimate goal of China's exchange rate reform is to make the yuan a fully convertible currency, Yi Gang, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), said Friday.
The recent rally in China's A-share market sparked by the speculation of a stronger yuan is likely to be short-lived as investors grow skeptical that Beijing's move to de-peg the currency from the dollar will have an immediate and substantial impact.
China's foreign exchange reform and currency appreciation will not lead to a sharp change in its exports or diminish protectionist measures against China, a Ministry of Commerce official said.
The International Monetary Fund's softened tone toward China's exchange rate regime will ease pressure on the appreciation of the yuan, Chinese economists have said.
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The conventional wisdom is that once the value of the yuan is increased, the US trade deficit with China would start falling. This rationale has prompted many Americans to push for further, faster revaluation of the yuan even after China changed its currency policy.
A pilot program on renminbi cross-border settlement was launched in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Tuesday as part of China's effort to gradually promote the renminbi into a global currency.
The government is facing pressure to curb abnormal capital inflows into the country, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said on Thursday, even as analysts warned that such pressures would remain given the expected gradual appreciation of the currency.