國際貨幣基金組織首次公佈全球人民幣外儲

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released data about the world's holdings of the Chinese currency, the renminbi, denominated foreign exchange reserves for the first time.

國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)日前首次公佈了全球人民幣外匯儲備持有情況。

This move recognized the continuing internationalization of the renminbi, the IMF said.

IMF表示，此舉是對人民幣不斷國際化的認可。

By the end of December 2016, forex reserves that were identified in the renminbi reached 84.51 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 1.07% of the world's total forex reserves, according to the data on the currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves (COFER), which was released by the IMF quarterly.

IMF日前公佈的官方外匯儲備貨幣構成(COFER)季度數據顯示，截至2016年12月底，人民幣外匯儲備達845.1億美元，佔全球外儲總資產的1.07%。

Previously, the currencies identified in COFER were the US dollar, pound sterling, Japanese yen, Swiss francs, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar and euro.

此前，COFER列出的貨幣有美元、英鎊、日元、瑞士法郎、加元、澳元和歐元。

The IMF announced in last March that it would separately identify the RMB in its quarterly survey of the COFER from Oct. 1, 2016, and would publish the first data with the separate identification of RMB-denominated reserves at the end of March 2017.

IMF於去年三月宣佈，將從2016年10月1日開始，在COFER的季度調查中單獨列出人民幣，並將在2017年3月底首次發佈人民幣外匯儲備持有情況的數據。

By the end of 2016, the U.S. dollar-denominated forex reserves reached 5,052.94 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 63.96 percent of the world's total; the euro-denominated forex reserves ranked the second, with their share at 19.74 percent.

截止2016年，美元的外匯儲備達到了50529.4億美元，佔全球外儲總資產的63.96%。而歐盟的外匯儲備則排名第二，佔總資產的19.74%。