Quotable quotes from Tsinghua PBCSF Global Finance Forum
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Updated: 2021-05-24 13:40
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PBOC former governor Zhou Xiaochuan
China's experimental digital yuan is not designed to replace the US dollar's global dominance. The digital yuan, also known as e-CNY or Digital Currency Electronic Payment, is primarily built on modernizing China's payment system and playing catch-up in the era of the digital economy and aims to raise efficiency, reduce costs and serve the retail payment segment in particular.
Efforts to modernize and digitize the yuan-denominated payment system would help in increasing the yuan's status. However, the yuan's internationalization is contingent upon the country's institutional and policy choices, and its reform and opening-up progress, he said, and technical factors are only helpful to some degree.
