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- Index number:
- 000014453-2012-00315
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- Dispatch date:
- 2012-07-30
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- Publish organization:
- State Administration of Foreign Exchange
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- Exchange Reference number:
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- Name:
- The SAFE Publishes the Quarterly Time Series Data for the Balance of Payments Statements
Recently, in order to improve the transparency of the balance of payments statistical data, the SAFE prepared and published China’s Quarterly Balance of Payments Statements from 1998 to 2009 (see Annex I) prepared on the basis of the historical data, and simultaneously published the Annual Balance of Payments Statements from 1998 to 2009 (see Annex II) prepared on the basis of the quarterly accumulated data on a yearly basis.
The data in the Quarterly Balance of Payments Statements published at this time strictly follow the requirements of the International Monetary Fund’s Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition, and the data on such items as reserve assets, relevant profits from foreign direct investment in China, and foreign aid from government departments have been adjusted, further extending the length of the Balance of Payments Quarterly Time Series Data.
Thus,