Globalization of renminbi to boost stability
China DailyA worker counts Chinese currency renminbi at a bank in Linyi, East China's Shandong province. The internationalization of the renminbi is gathering momentum, and such a trend will help facilitate China's further opening-up and encourage the country's global trade and investment, scholars and analysts said. The RMB's share stood at 2.54 percent in May, Swift said, adding that the Chinese currency has retained its position as the fifth most active currency for global payments by value. Wang Fang, deputy dean of the School of Finance at Renmin University of China, said that global trade and investment cooperation is a viable way for RMB internationalization. Also, while central banks in major economies have significantly raised interest rates, China's comparatively low interest rates have bolstered the RMB's attractiveness as an international financing currency, he said.