Is China Preparing A Gold-Backed Yuan: Beijing Greenlights Purchases Of Billions In Bullion

April 23, 2021

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Is China Preparing A Gold-Backed Yuan: Beijing Greenlights Purchases Of Billions In Bullion — *Image by SSYoung*

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In 2018, the Chinese launched a gold-backed, yuan-denominated oil futures contract. These contracts were priced in yuan, but convertible to gold, raising the prospect that “the rise of the petroyuan could be the death blow for the dollar.”

Two weeks ago, The IMF reported that the global share of US-dollar-denominated exchange reserves dropped to 59.0% in the fourth quarter, according to the IMF’s COFER data released today. This matched the 25-year low of 1995.

And just last week, China became the first major economy to unleash a Central Bank Digital Currency, "cementing its trailblazer status in virtual currencies far ahead of other countries, after already recently experimenting with large-scale trials of actual payments by consumers, which was met with mixed results..."

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