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The article discusses the new measures outlined by the People's Bank of China in its first document of 2011, which concern a pilot program to allow non-financial enterprises to use the yuan, also called the renminbi, in settlement while making investments in overseas markets. The new measures mean that foreign entrepreneurs can get funding denominated in the currency of China. Banking professor Guo Tianyong says that allowing yuan settlement in outbound direct investments will help avoid settlement risks brought about by the third-party currency.

The article offers information on the 2008 second-quarter monetary report issued by People's Bank of China. According to the central bank, the country's financial market was heading smoothly toward the macroeconomic control direction it had set and it had improved the flexibility of the renminbi exchange rate policy by allowing the currency fluctuate in accordance with major world currencies. The report also cites that the government would keep the stability and continuity of its current monetary policy.