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China’s Central Bank Releases ‘Action Plan’ to Enhance Digital Yuan Implementation Beginning January 2026
The People’s Bank of China has released an “Action Plan” aimed at improving the management and financial framework of the digital yuan.
The new generation central bank digital currency (CBDC) framework, along with its management and operational mechanisms, is set to be officially implemented on January 1, 2026, as reported by a Chinese business daily on Monday.
Lu Lei, Deputy Governor of the PBOC, detailed the features of the contemporary digital yuan, which include its issuance and circulation within the financial ecosystem. He emphasized that the central bank will provide technical support and oversight.
It will possess “the functions of a measure of monetary value, store of value, and cross-border payment,” he noted. The emphasis on the CBDC follows a decade of development and testing.
“In 2016, China introduced a two-tier operating system for the digital yuan. After ten years of practical testing, it has received broad acknowledgment from central banks and international organizations globally, establishing itself as a universal standard for digital currencies and a foundational system for ensuring the internal circulation of the monetary system and maintaining financial stability.”
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Additionally, Lu Lei introduced a “two-tier architecture” within the action plan, which specifies that banking institutions with digital yuan wallets will provide interest to customers based on the volume of digital assets they hold.
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“This setup creates a compatible incentive structure,” he stated, adding that banks can autonomously manage the assets and liabilities associated with their digital yuan wallet balances.
This initiative follows the recent establishment of a new digital yuan operations center in Shanghai, China’s financial center. The center will concentrate on three primary platforms, including a cross-border payment rail, blockchain services, and a crypto platform.
Moreover, at the management level, the action plan indicated that the PBOC will form a Digital RMB Management Committee to coordinate business lines and oversee responsibilities.
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The country experienced challenges after its multilateral cross-border payment platform, known as mBridge, faced discussions of shutdown. A year prior, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) withdrew from the initiative due to concerns that the underlying technology could serve as a means to bypass sanctions and potentially threaten the dollar’s supremacy in the global financial landscape.
Furthermore, despite an ambitious CBDC launch in 2019, user hesitance and competition from established mobile payment systems continue to hinder its advancement.
Charles Chang, director of the Fintech Research Centre at Fudan University, noted that “the digital yuan is encountering some obstacles in adoption today.”
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