China will not devalue yuan to spur exports: Central bank chief

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BEIJING China has gone to great lengths to support its currency and would not devalue the yuan to spur exports or combat trade frictions, the governor of the central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said yesterday. Speaking on the sidelines of China's annual...

Beijing and Washington have been locked in a bruising trade war since last year, imposing tit-for-tat tariffs on more than US$360 billion in two-way trade, which has left global markets reeling.

In the past three or four years the exchange rate had been under market pressure to depreciate, Mr Yi said, adding that Beijing had used up US$1 trillion of China's foreign currency reserves to stabilise the currency.

 

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