China Economic Semi -annual Daily | Digital RMB pilot test scope expands innovative special application scenarios

CCTV News: At the press conference held by the State Council's Journalism Office on the afternoon of July 13, Zou Lan, director of the Monetary Policy Department of the People's Bank of China, introduced the latest RMB RMB RMB. At present23 areas of the city.

Zou Lan said that in the first half of the year, the scope of the nation's digital RMB pilot test scope steadily expanded and continued to innovate its special application scenarios.

According to Zou Lan, as of May 31st this year, pilot areas of 15 provinces and cities passed the cumulative number of transactions through digital RMB about 264 million, with a amount of about 83 billion yuan, and the number of merchant stores that supported digital RMB payment reached 4.567 million.

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