China has no plan to replace USD with digital yuan, former PBoC head says

China has no plan to replace USD with digital yuan, former PBoC head says

A former PBoC official says that his country has taken a cautious approach with the digital yuan. The Chinese government is not seeking to replace existing fiat currencies with its own digital currency, according to a former governor of the People’s Bank of China, or PBoC.Zhou Xiaochuan, the president of the Chinese Finance Association and former PBoC governor, claimed that China’s digital yuan is not intended to replace global fiat currencies like the United States dollar and the euro, the South China Morning Post reported on Dec. 14.Also known as a digital currency electronic payment, or....


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