China's Yi Gang: China will allow more investment this year - Reuters

China's central bank governor Yi Gang spoke on Wednesday about China's foreign investment policies, and China's plan to further open up their economy in the future, as reported by Reuters.

Key quotes (source: Reuters)

China will allow domestic and foreign financial firms to compete on an equal footing and “sharply” expand the business scope for foreign banks.

The pledge, made at the annual Boao Forum for Asia in southern Hainan province, echoed previous promises from Beijing to open the financial sector but comes at a time of heightened pressure on China from the United States over trade and access to China’s markets.

On the trade front, Yi said China and the United States should deal with their trade issues in a rational way, and added that the central bank would not let the yuan depreciate.

Yi, who became governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) last month, said China would allow foreign investors into trust, financial leasing, auto finance and consumer finance by the end of the year.

The government would also not set foreign ownership limits for investment in wealth management companies set up by commercial banks by the end of 2018.

Yi renewed China’s pledge to further open the financial markets, and said most financial opening measures would be implemented by the end of June. He did not specify exactly what policies he was referring to.