PBOC Meeting Minutes: Strengthen Regulation on Virtual Currency, Steadily Promote Digital RMB

BlockBeats News, January 6, 2026 - The People's Bank of China's work conference in 2026 was held on January 5-6. The conference emphasized the research on building a financial statistical system and standard system that matches the modern central bank system, continuously carrying out key area statistical monitoring such as the financial "five major tasks" and financing platform debt. It also solidified the achievements of the work in constructing a cash usage environment, continuously improved the efficiency of national treasury management, prudently implemented a one-time individual credit repair policy, further improved the social credit system, optimized payment services for the elderly and foreigners living in China in a normalized and sustainable manner, strictly implemented penetration supervision of payment institutions and functional supervision of payment services, strengthened regulation of virtual currencies, continuously cracked down on related illegal and criminal activities, deepened technology management and innovative applications, and steadily developed the digital RMB. (Jin10)