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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Renminbi becomes world's ninth most traded currency

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-09-08

Counting RMB banknotes at a bank in Suining, Sichuan province. (Photo/Xinhua)

After the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements on Spet. 5 announced that the renminbi is now the world's ninth most-traded international currency, economic observers told the state-run China News Service that more challenges are ahead for China's government.

Surveying 24 currencies in 53 countries and regions in its report, the Bank for International Settlements said the renminbi has risen to ninth place because of significant expansion in offshore trading in the currency, according to the Associated Press.

Guo Tianyong, director of the Banking Research Center at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing said the rise of China's political and economic clout is the key reason the country's currency is becoming increasingly favored. However, Guo said this also means a greater burden on the renminbi to stabilize the global economy in the future.

Zhou Jingtong from the Institute of International Finance of the Bank of China said the government must pay more attention to global economic interests instead of focusing on China alone when it sets policy as the country's reputation as a new economic power depends upon it.

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