China’s Wen pledges more flexible yuan

BEIJING - China will keep improving its exchange rate regime by letting market forces play a greater role and gradually making the yuan's CNYCFXS trading band more flexible, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday.

  • PUBLISHED: Wed 28 Nov 2007, 4:50 PM UPDATED: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 11:23 PM

At a summit with European Union leaders, Wen said China was not deliberately seeking to run a trade surplus and would take measures to expand domestic demand.

'China will continue to perfect the renminbi exchange rate regime in a gradual, proactive and manageable manner, give a further role to the market in determining the exchange rate, and will bring flexibility to the renminbi with a view to enabling capital account convertibility,' Wen said.