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On May 19, 2017, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) holds a seminar with foreign-funded enterprises. The seminar was chaired by Pan Gongsheng, administrator of the SAFE, and attended by many foreign-funded enterprises such as Ericsson, Caterpillar, Alps, Thyssenkrupp, Dell, ABB, Mars, and Johnson Controls. Representatives present introduced the operations of their enterprises and provided constructive ideas on foreign exchange administration based on their practices. According to Administrator Pan, China's cross-border capital flows are recovering with a good momentum for growth and finding an equilibrium. A stable and benign foreign exchange market is favorable for foreign-funded enterprises' operations in China, while maintaining the stability of the foreign exchange market requires the cooperation and concerted efforts of regulators and the market. Foreign exchange authorities will persevere in reform and opening up, and enhancing cross-border trade and investment facilitation to better serve the real economy, while guarding against risks arising from cross-border capital flows, and maintaining the stability of the foreign exchange market, so as to provide a healthy and benign market environment for market participants. 2017-05-19/en/2017/0519/1268.html
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On April 18, Pan Gongsheng, administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) met with a delegation headed by Lee Theng Kiat, CEO of Singapore-based Temasek International in Beijing. The two sides had friendly dialogue and exchanged ideas on the investment strategy of Temasek in China, China's economic development and the opportunities to invest in the countries along the Belt and Road. 2017-04-19/en/2017/0419/1255.html
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On March 16, 2017, Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), met Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, the UK. Mr. Wolf held a lecture at the SAFE on the evolution of globalization and its impact on China. 2017-03-17/en/2017/0317/1253.html
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On December 11, 2016, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that China had officially started to report to the BIS locational banking statistics (LBS) under the international banking statistics (IBS) and released China's data on its website, which shows that the quality of China's balance of payments statistics has been internationally recognized again, thanks to continuous improvement on transparency. Joining LBS is another key progress China has made to achieve the targets of the G20 Data Gaps Initiative (DGI) since implementing the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) and participating in the IMF's Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS). Expanding the IBS-reporting population has been one of the targets of the G20 Data Gaps Initiative (DGI). China's joining takes the number of LBS-reporting countries to 46. A total of 12 EMEs now report to the LBS, along with 12 offshore financial centers and 22 advanced economies. At end-June 2016, banks in China reported outstanding cross-border claims of USD 778 billion and liabilities of USD 918 billion. This makes China the 10th largest cross-border creditor in the international banking market. Turning to the currency composition of the cross-border claims and liabilities, at end-June 2016 banks in China were net lenders of US dollars, with dollar claims of USD 549 billion and dollar liabilities of USD 274 billion, resulting in net claims of USD 275 billion. However, USD 358 billion of Chinese banks' cross-border liabilities were denominated in Renminbi, while Renminbi-denominated cross-border claims of banks in China stood at USD 73 billion, leading to USD 285 billion in net cross-border liabilities. The BIS text is available on its official website at www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1612s.htm. 2016-12-13/en/2016/1213/1229.html
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Pan Gongsheng, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), has recently met with William Conway, Co-founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group in Beijing. The two sides exchanged ideas on global economic and financial trends and the exchange rate movements of major economies. According to Administrator Pan Gongsheng, the currencies of major developed and emerging markets have depreciated recently on the rising expectations of the Fed's interest rate hikes. So has the RMB exchange rate against the USD. Nevertheless, the RMB exchange rate has stayed stable compared with other international reserve currencies and currencies of emerging market economies, falling slightly at the global level. Further, the RMB has appreciated against a basket of multilateral exchange rates. China's economy has been operating steadily, featuring positive progress in restructuring, faster growth of the new economic dynamics and stable financial markets. Under such circumstances, the RMB exchange rate will remain stable at a reasonable and even level, and there are no grounds for continuous depreciation. 2016-10-31/en/2016/1031/1213.html
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On the afternoon of December 9, Mr. Zhu Min, former vice president of the IMF, was invited to give a lecture entitled "Global Economic and Financial Trends" at the SAFE. The lecture was chaired by Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) and administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), and attended by relevant officials from the PBC and the SAFE. Mr. Zhu briefed the audience on the relationship between the world economy and finance, the spillovers of the world economy and finance, future trends of the global economy and the orientation of the US economic policies. He also interacted and exchanged ideas with the audience on the monetary and exchange rate policies, the future movements of the US exchange rate and the impact on China's economy, as well as China's balance of payments. 2016-12-12/en/2016/1212/1228.html
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The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has jointly held the third Deployment and Promotion Meeting in 2016 against underground banks. The two authorities have been closely collaborating and cooperating with each other to organize the crackdowns on underground banks. By tracking the foreign exchange irregularities behind underground banks, they have cracked many illicit trading of foreign exchange, and fabricated trading of foreign exchange through fake documents for cheated purchases, evasion and frauds of foreign exchange. Both authorities said that they will always maintain a tough stance on crimes such as underground banks, and rectify foreign exchange administration order so as to safeguard economic and financial security. 2016-12-14/en/2016/1214/1230.html
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On June 16, 2016, Professor Lawrence H. Summers, a famous US economist, was invited to give a lecture at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). The lecture was chaired by Pan Gongsheng, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) and Administrator of the SAFE, and attended by relevant officials from the PBC and the SAFE. Professor Summers introduced the changes to the global and US economic and financial environments and the trends of the global and US economic and financial policies. Both sides exchanged ideas and had heated discussions on the trends of post-crisis financial regulatory adjustments in face of the low interest rates and the coordination of monetary policies and fiscal policies. 2016-08-31/en/2016/0831/1210.html
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On September 7, 2016, Pan Gongsheng, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), met with Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone in Beijing. The two sides exchanged ideas on topics such as global economic and financial trends, investment opportunities, and business cooperation. 2016-11-08/en/2016/1108/1216.html
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On September 23, 2016, Pan Gongsheng, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), met with Gerald Hassell, Chairman and CEO of the Bank of New York Mellon in Beijing. The two sides exchanged ideas on the global economic and financial trends, the liberalization of China's bonds market and cooperation opportunities. 2016-11-08/en/2016/1108/1224.html