The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has recently published the Guidelines on External Financial Assets and Liabilities and Foreign Transaction Statistics (2017 Version) (Huizongfa No. 106 [2017]). The guidelines, a supplement to the Statistics System of External Financial Assets and Liabilities and Foreign Transactions (Huifa No. 15 [2016]), are a summary of the answers to business problems encountered in the early period and the experience in verification, with the aim of further standardizing the declaration of external financial assets and liabilities and foreign transaction statistics, guiding the declarers to accurately understand the declaration requirements and enhance the data quality in statistics declaration.