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As shown in the statistics of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), in August 2025, the amount of foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks was RMB 1510.3 billion and RMB 1405.8 billion, respectively. During January to August 2025, the accumulative amount of foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks was RMB 11393.8 billion and RMB 11307.8 billion, respectively. In the US dollar terms, in August 2025, the amount of foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks was USD 211.8 billion and USD 197.1 billion, respectively. During January to August 2025, the accumulative amount of foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks was USD 1588.6 billion and USD 1576.5 billion, respectively. In August 2025,the amount of cross-border receipts and payments by non-banking sectors was RMB 4551.5 billion and RMB 4528.4 billion, respectively. During January to August 2025, the accumulative amount of cross-border receipts and payments by non-banking sectors was RMB 37221.9 billion and RMB 36340.0 billion, respectively. In the US dollar terms, in August 2025, the amount of cross-border receipts and payments by non-banking sectors was USD 638.3 billion and USD 635.0 billion, respectively. During January to August 2025, the accumulative amount of cross-border receipts and payments by non-banking sectors was USD 5189.3 billion and USD 5066.5 billion, respectively. Addendum: Glossary and relevant definitions Balance of payments (BOP) refers to all economic transactions between residents and non-residents. Foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks refers to settlement and sale transaction that bank executes for customers and for the banks themselves, including statistic data on settlements of forward contracts for foreign exchange settlement and sales and the exercises of option, and excluding the transactions in the interbank foreign exchange market. The statistic reporting date of Foreign exchange settlement and sales by banks should be the trade day of the Foreign exchange settlement and sales transaction. By definition, foreign exchange settlement means that foreign exchange holders sell foreign exchange to banks, and foreign exchange sales means that banks sell foreign exchange to foreign exchange buyers. The newly signed contract amount of forward foreign exchange settlement and sales refers to the binding forward contract between a bank and its client that predetermines foreign exchange currency, amount, exchange rate and tenor which to be executed upon maturity. The unwind amount of forward foreign exchange settlement and sales refers to, where client is unable to perform the original forward contract due to change in its real demand, client to fully or partially close its forward position by executing another deal with opposite direction to the original contract. The rolling amount of forward foreign exchange settlement and sales refers to client to adjust the settlement date of original contract due to change in its real demand. The outstanding amount of forward foreign exchange settlement and sales by the end of the current period refers to the total amount of forward contracts accumulated from all non-matured forward contracts with client. The net Delta exposure of outstanding options refers to the implied foreign exchange spot risk exposure from outstanding option contracts that bank executed with client. The cross-border receipts and payments by non-banking sectors refers to the receipts and payments between domestic non-banking sectors (including institutional and individual residents) and non-residents through domestic banks, excluding cash transactions and bank’s own cross-border receipts and payments. In particular, the statistics includes cross-border receipts and payments between non-banking sectors and non-residents through domestic banks (including RMB and foreign currency),and domestic receipts and payments between non-banking sectors and non-residents through domestic banks (temporarily excluding domestic receipts and payments in RMB between individual/institutional residents and non-resident individuals). Data are collected when customers conduct receipts and payments with non-resident counterparties at domestic banks. Specifically, the receipts refer to funds received by non-banking sectors from non-residents via domestic banks; the payments refer to funds paid by non-banking sectors to non-residents via domestic banks. 2025-09-19/en/2025/0919/2336.html
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According to the statistics by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), by the end of March 2025, China's foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.2407 trillion, up by USD 13.4 billion or 0.42% from the end of February 2025. In March 2025, driven by factors such as macroeconomic data, fiscal and monetary policies as well as expectations of major economies, the US dollar index fell and global financial asset prices generally declined. China’s foreign exchange reserves increased this month due to the combined effects of currency translation and changes in asset prices. China’s economy has maintained overall stability with steady progress, a package of existing and incremental policies has cotinued to demonstrate effectiveness, and high-quality development has been solidly advanced, providing support for sustaining a stable scale of foreign exchange reserves. 2025-04-07/en/2025/0407/2332.html
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According to the statistics of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), the Chinese foreign exchange market (excluding foreign currency pairs, the same below) recorded total transactions of RMB 24.08 trillion (equivalent to USD 3.38 trillion) in August 2025. In terms of markets, the transactions volume of client market was RMB 3.71 trillion (equivalent to USD 0.52 trillion), and the transactions volume of interbank market was RMB 20.37 trillion (equivalent to USD 2.86 trillion). In terms of products, the cumulative transactions volume of the spot market was RMB 9.16 trillion (equivalent to USD 1.28 trillion), and that of the derivatives market was RMB 14.93 trillion (equivalent to USD 2.09 trillion). From January to August 2025, a total of RMB 203.23 trillion (equivalent to USD 28.33 trillion) was traded in the Chinese foreign exchange market. 2025-09-26/en/2025/0926/2339.html
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According to the statistics by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), by the end of May 2025, China's foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.2853 trillion, up by USD 3.6 billion or 0.11% from the end of April 2025. In May 2025, driven by factors such as the fiscal policies, monetary policies, and economic growth expectations of major economies, the US dollar index experienced minor fluctuations, and global financial asset prices exhibited mixed performance. China's foreign exchange reserves increased this month due to the combined effects of currency translation and changes in asset prices. The Chinese economy has sustained its momentum of recovery and growth, with steady improvement in the quality of development, providing support for sustaining a stable scale of foreign exchange reserves. 2025-06-07/en/2025/0607/2337.html
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According to the statistics by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), by the end of April 2025, China’s foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.2817 trillion, up by USD 41 billion or 1.27% from the end of March 2025. In April 2025, driven by factors such as macro policies and economic growth expectations of major economies, the US dollar index fell and global financial asset prices exhibited mixed performance. China’s foreign exchange reserves increased this month due to the combined effects of currency translation and changes in asset prices. China’s economy demonstrates a favorable trajectory marked by strong resilience and dynamic vitality, providing support for sustaining a stable scale of foreign exchange reserves. 2025-05-07/en/2025/0507/2333.html
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According to statistics from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), by the end of June 2025, China’s foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.3174 trillion, up by USD 32.2 billion or 0.98% from the end of May 2025. In June 2025, driven by factors such as macro policies and the economic growth prospects of major economies, the US dollar index fell, while global financial asset prices generally rose. China’s foreign exchange reserves increased this month due to the combined effects of currency translation and changes in asset prices. China’s economy continues its steady and sustained growth and maintains good development momentum, providing support for sustaining a stable scale of foreign exchange reserves. 2025-07-07/en/2025/0707/2334.html
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According to the statistics released by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), by the end of August 2025, China's foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.3222 trillion, up by USD 29.9 billion or 0.91% from the end of July 2025. In August 2025, driven by factors such as monetary policy expectations and macroeconomic data of major economies, the US dollar index fell and global financial asset prices generally rose. China's foreign exchange reserves increased this month due to the combined effects of currency translation and changes in asset prices. China's economy maintains steady momentum, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality, which will support the stable scale of foreign exchange reserves. 2025-09-07/en/2025/0907/2340.html
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FILE： Annual Report of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (2024) 2025-09-28/en/2020/1221/2341.html
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On August 1, the SAFE held a seminar on foreign exchange management work for the second half of 2025 via video. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the seminar conveyed, studied and implemented the spirit of the CPC Central Committee Politburo meeting, summarized the foreign exchange management work in the first half of the year, analyzed the current financial and foreign exchange situation, and arranged the key tasks for the second half of this year. Zhu Hexin, Secretary of the CPC SAFE Leadership Group and Administrator of the SAFE, delivered a work report. Members of the CPC SAFE Leadership Group and Deputy Administrators of the SAFE attended the seminar. The seminar pointed out that since 2025, the foreign exchange management department has conscientiously implemented the guiding principles of the Central Economic Work Conference, coordinated efforts for preventing risks, strengthening supervision and promoting development in the field of foreign exchange, rigorously advanced the rectification of issues identified by the central inspection team, and achieved positive results in all aspects. Firstly, we upheld and strengthened the Party's overall leadership. We thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches, conducted intensive education on the central Party leadership's eight-point decision on conduct, and resolutely advanced comprehensive and rigorous Party self-governance. Secondly, we enhanced foreign exchange support for the high-quality development of the real economy. We boosted foreign trade stability by expanding and improving facilitation policies for trade foreign exchange receipts and payments of high-quality enterprises, upgrading pilot programs for high-level trade opening-up, and enabling more banks and payment institutions to process foreign exchange settlements for entities in new trade formats based on electronic transaction information. We reformed cross-border investment and financing management in an orderly manner by expanding the pilot program of integrated capital pool for multinational companies' domestic and foreign currencies, allocating a new investment quota of USD 3.08 billion to Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors (QDII), and studyingthe development of comprehensive measures to deepen foreign exchange management reform in cross-border investment and financing. We improved the service for corporate foreign exchange risk management, achieving a record-high corporate foreign exchange hedging ratio in the first half of this year. We prudently advanced the reform of banks' foreign exchange business, with banks processing over USD 200 billion in cross-border payments based on client instructions. We actively supported regional opening-up and development, especially the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center. Thirdly, we vigorously safeguarded the stable operation of the foreign exchange market. We maintained the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate while strengthening the "macro-prudential + micro-regulation" two-pronged management of the foreign exchange market, enabling China's foreign exchange market to demonstrate strong resilience amid complex challenges. Fourthly, we made efforts to build a robust foreign exchange regulatory system. We strengthened the legal foundation and operational mechanisms for foreign exchange regulation, and severely cracked down on illegal activities such as underground banking. Fifthly, we improved the operation and management of foreign exchange reserves, with the scale of foreign exchange reserves standing stable at more than USD 3.2 trillion. The seminar stressed that the foreign exchange management department should conscientiously study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the current economic situation and the economic work in the second half of 2025 delivered at the CPC Central Committee Politburo meeting, effectively align thoughts and actions with the CPC Central Committee's assessment of economic and financial conditions as well as its decisions and arrangements, uphold the Party's overall leadership over financial and foreign exchange work, advance the modernization of the foreign exchange governance system and capabilities, establish a foreign exchange management institutional mechanism that is "more convenient, more open, more secure, and more intelligent", resolutely follow the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, and provide strong support for the high-quality economic development and the advancement of Chinese modernization. The seminar arranged the key tasks for the second half of 2025. First, to comprehensively strengthen Party building. We shall thoroughly carry out General Secretary Xi Jinping's important requirements of "five further implementations", earnestly fulfill the spirit of the Financial Sector Party Building Work Conference, advance the normalized and long-term inspection rectification, enhance quality and efficiency of Party building, further advance comprehensive and rigorous Party self-governance, refine long-term-mechanisms for work style construction, and build loyal, clean and responsible professional foreign exchange cadre team. Second, to deepen foreign exchange reform and opening-up. We shall support stable development of foreign trade by implementing a package of trade foreign exchange management reform policies, such as optimizing foreign exchange settlement for entities in new trade formats and facilitating centralized offshore fund management for project contractors. We shall promote cross-border investment and financing facilitation through the implementation of a package of measures, including eliminating registration requirement for foreign-invested enterprises' domestic reinvestment, facilitating cross-border financing for technology-based enterprises, implementing the management policies of multinational corporations' cross-border capital pool nationwide, launching pilot programs for green foreign debt, and optimizing fund management for overseas-listed domestic enterprises. We shall expand and upgrade the reform of banks' foreign exchange business. We shall deepen the development of the foreign exchange market, and continue to improve the service for corporate foreign exchange risk management. We shall support regional opening-up according to local conditions, by actively supporting the strategy for upgrading pilot free trade zones and the foreign exchange management innovation in the Hainan Free Trade Port and the Greater Bay Area, etc. Third, to prevent and eliminate external shock risks. We shall strengthen monitoring and analysis of foreign exchange situation, enhance macro-prudential management of cross-border capital flows, and market expectations guidance, conduct timely counter-cyclical adjustments, so as to safeguard a stable foreign exchange market as well as ensure national economic and financial security. Fourth, to enhance regulatory capacities and standards under open-economy conditions. We shall advance the construction of foreign exchange management legal framework. We shall improve in-process and ex-post supervision, leverage technology for regulatory efficacy, severely crack down on illegal cross-border financial activities. Fifth, to improve the operation and management of foreign exchange reserves with Chinese characteristics, so as to ensure the safety, liquidity, as well as value preservation and appreciation of foreign exchange reserves. Sixth, to promote the development of the statistical system for the balance of payments. We shall formulate the implementation plan for the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (Seventh Edition). Seventh, to comprehensively raise the level of foreign exchange management work. We shall strengthen pre-implementation appraisal and deliberation as well as post-implementation follow-up assessment for policy impact. We shall advance "digital foreign exchange administration" and "secure foreign exchange administration", as well as explore "smart foreign exchange administration". We shall continuously enrich application scenarios of cross-border financial service platforms. The relevant responsible comrades of all departments and subordinate units of the SAFE, as well as the responsible comrades of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed in the SAFE, attended the seminar on site. The relevant comrades from the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs, the Office of the Central Financial Commission and the General Office of the State Council were invited to attend the seminar. The relevant comrades of the SAFE provincial branches attended the seminar at local venues. 2025-08-01/en/2025/0801/2347.html
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On August 1, the SAFE held a seminar on foreign exchange management work for the second half of 2025 via video. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the seminar conveyed, studied and implemented the spirit of the CPC Central Committee Politburo meeting, summarized the foreign exchange management work in the first half of the year, analyzed the current financial and foreign exchange situation, and arranged the key tasks for the second half of this year. Zhu Hexin, Secretary of the CPC SAFE Leadership Group and Administrator of the SAFE, delivered a work report. Members of the CPC SAFE Leadership Group and Deputy Administrators of the SAFE attended the seminar. The seminar pointed out that since 2025, the foreign exchange management department has conscientiously implemented the guiding principles of the Central Economic Work Conference, coordinated efforts for preventing risks, strengthening supervision and promoting development in the field of foreign exchange, rigorously advanced the rectification of issues identified by the central inspection team, and achieved positive results in all aspects. Firstly, we upheld and strengthened the Party's overall leadership. We thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches, conducted intensive education on the central Party leadership's eight-point decision on conduct, and resolutely advanced comprehensive and rigorous Party self-governance. Secondly, we enhanced foreign exchange support for the high-quality development of the real economy. We boosted foreign trade stability by expanding and improving facilitation policies for trade foreign exchange receipts and payments of high-quality enterprises, upgrading pilot programs for high-level trade opening-up, and enabling more banks and payment institutions to process foreign exchange settlements for entities in new trade formats based on electronic transaction information. We reformed cross-border investment and financing management in an orderly manner by expanding the pilot program of integrated capital pool for multinational companies' domestic and foreign currencies, allocating a new investment quota of USD 3.08 billion to Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors (QDII), and studyingthe development of comprehensive measures to deepen foreign exchange management reform in cross-border investment and financing. We improved the service for corporate foreign exchange risk management, achieving a record-high corporate foreign exchange hedging ratio in the first half of this year. We prudently advanced the reform of banks' foreign exchange business, with banks processing over USD 200 billion in cross-border payments based on client instructions. We actively supported regional opening-up and development, especially the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center. Thirdly, we vigorously safeguarded the stable operation of the foreign exchange market. We maintained the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate while strengthening the "macro-prudential + micro-regulation" two-pronged management of the foreign exchange market, enabling China's foreign exchange market to demonstrate strong resilience amid complex challenges. Fourthly, we made efforts to build a robust foreign exchange regulatory system. We strengthened the legal foundation and operational mechanisms for foreign exchange regulation, and severely cracked down on illegal activities such as underground banking. Fifthly, we improved the operation and management of foreign exchange reserves, with the scale of foreign exchange reserves standing stable at more than USD 3.2 trillion. The seminar stressed that the foreign exchange management department should conscientiously study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the current economic situation and the economic work in the second half of 2025 delivered at the CPC Central Committee Politburo meeting, effectively align thoughts and actions with the CPC Central Committee's assessment of economic and financial conditions as well as its decisions and arrangements, uphold the Party's overall leadership over financial and foreign exchange work, advance the modernization of the foreign exchange governance system and capabilities, establish a foreign exchange management institutional mechanism that is "more convenient, more open, more secure, and more intelligent", resolutely follow the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, and provide strong support for the high-quality economic development and the advancement of Chinese modernization. The seminar arranged the key tasks for the second half of 2025. First, to comprehensively strengthen Party building. We shall thoroughly carry out General Secretary Xi Jinping's important requirements of "five further implementations", earnestly fulfill the spirit of the Financial Sector Party Building Work Conference, advance the normalized and long-term inspection rectification, enhance quality and efficiency of Party building, further advance comprehensive and rigorous Party self-governance, refine long-term-mechanisms for work style construction, and build loyal, clean and responsible professional foreign exchange cadre team. Second, to deepen foreign exchange reform and opening-up. We shall support stable development of foreign trade by implementing a package of trade foreign exchange management reform policies, such as optimizing foreign exchange settlement for entities in new trade formats and facilitating centralized offshore fund management for project contractors. We shall promote cross-border investment and financing facilitation through the implementation of a package of measures, including eliminating registration requirement for foreign-invested enterprises' domestic reinvestment, facilitating cross-border financing for technology-based enterprises, implementing the management policies of multinational corporations' cross-border capital pool nationwide, launching pilot programs for green foreign debt, and optimizing fund management for overseas-listed domestic enterprises. We shall expand and upgrade the reform of banks' foreign exchange business. We shall deepen the development of the foreign exchange market, and continue to improve the service for corporate foreign exchange risk management. We shall support regional opening-up according to local conditions, by actively supporting the strategy for upgrading pilot free trade zones and the foreign exchange management innovation in the Hainan Free Trade Port and the Greater Bay Area, etc. Third, to prevent and eliminate external shock risks. We shall strengthen monitoring and analysis of foreign exchange situation, enhance macro-prudential management of cross-border capital flows, and market expectations guidance, conduct timely counter-cyclical adjustments, so as to safeguard a stable foreign exchange market as well as ensure national economic and financial security. Fourth, to enhance regulatory capacities and standards under open-economy conditions. We shall advance the construction of foreign exchange management legal framework. We shall improve in-process and ex-post supervision, leverage technology for regulatory efficacy, severely crack down on illegal cross-border financial activities. Fifth, to improve the operation and management of foreign exchange reserves with Chinese characteristics, so as to ensure the safety, liquidity, as well as value preservation and appreciation of foreign exchange reserves. Sixth, to promote the development of the statistical system for the balance of payments. We shall formulate the implementation plan for the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (Seventh Edition). Seventh, to comprehensively raise the level of foreign exchange management work. We shall strengthen pre-implementation appraisal and deliberation as well as post-implementation follow-up assessment for policy impact. We shall advance "digital foreign exchange administration" and "secure foreign exchange administration", as well as explore "smart foreign exchange administration". We shall continuously enrich application scenarios of cross-border financial service platforms. The relevant responsible comrades of all departments and subordinate units of the SAFE, as well as the responsible comrades of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed in the SAFE, attended the seminar on site. The relevant comrades from the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs, the Office of the Central Financial Commission and the General Office of the State Council were invited to attend the seminar. The relevant comrades of the SAFE provincial branches attended the seminar at local venues. 2025-08-01/en/2025/0801/2349.html