Beijing will expand a program allowing provinces to use renminbi in cross-border trade from two provinces to 20, the South China Morning Post reported. The People’s Bank of China, and the finance and commerce ministries said that a pilot program for using renminbi in cross-border trade had been "smooth, in good order, convenient, and popular among enterprises and banks" in Shanghai and four cities in Guangdong province where it had been introduced. The expansion of the program is part of Beijing’s efforts to encourage the international use of the currency. To date, the program has only applied to trade with Hong Kong, Macau and members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN), but the new regulation will permit the use of renminbi in transactions between approved provinces and any country.
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