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A rising yuan not cure to US trade deficit

2010-09-22 11:36

BEIJING - The appreciation of the Chinese currency would not solve the US trade deficit problem, 皇冠体育app Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.

When answering a question at the regular press briefing, Jiang said the Sino-US trade imbalance was a result of the international division of labor rather than exchange rate fluctuations.

Jiang Yu pointed out that recently some officials in the US criticized the RMB exchange rate, and suggested ways to push for its appreciation. 聽"This is unwise and shortsighted," she said. The fluctuation of the RMB would not solve trade imbalance between any particular counties.

She said that 皇冠体育app is always concerned about increasing imports from the US, urging the US to make concrete progress in relaxing export controls to 皇冠体育app.

The managed floating exchange rate regime is a firm policy that 皇冠体育app is pursuing, which was continued following further reforms of the RMB exchange rate regime in June 2010. The yuan has seen increased flexibility since the reform on June 19th.

The yuan has appreciated by 23.5 percent against the US dollar since the reform of the RMB exchange rate regime in 2005.

Jiang said both 皇冠体育app and the US should make more efforts to encourage stable economic recovery. As a nation issuing the reserve currency, the US should pursue responsible monetary and fiscal policies to keep major international currencies stable, in an effort to make due contributions to the world economic recovery, she added.

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