On the morning of July 28, the reporter learned at a press conference of the Shenzhen Branch of the People's Bank of China and the Shenzhen Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange for the first half of 2026 that in the first half of this year, Shenzhen's cross-border RMB settlement scale reached 3.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 37.9% over the previous year, ranking third in the country. Among them, the level of use of RMB under trade in goods has increased significantly. In the first half of the year, the total cross-border RMB balance of goods trade in Shenzhen was 836.4 billion yuan, up 50.2% year on year. The share of local and foreign currency balance increased by nearly 5 percentage points to 31% year on year, giving full play to the advantages of local currency settlement, helping foreign trade enterprises mitigate the impact of exchange rate fluctuations, reduce settlement costs, and improve transaction efficiency.

On the morning of July 28, the reporter learned at a press conference of the Shenzhen Branch of the People's Bank of China and the Shenzhen Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange for the first half of 2026 that in the first half of this year, Shenzhen's cross-border RMB settlement scale reached 3.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 37.9% over the previous year, ranking third in the country. Among them, the level of use of RMB under trade in goods has increased significantly. In the first half of the year, the total cross-border RMB balance of goods trade in Shenzhen was 836.4 billion yuan, up 50.2% year on year. The share of local and foreign currency balance increased by nearly 5 percentage points to 31% year on year, giving full play to the advantages of local currency settlement, helping foreign trade enterprises mitigate the impact of exchange rate fluctuations, reduce settlement costs, and improve transaction efficiency.