China's capital account liberalisation: international perspective

BIS Papers No 15
April 2003

Introduction

This volume collects the papers presented at the joint BIS/SAFE seminar on Capital account liberalisation in China: international perspectives, held on 12-13 September 2002 in Beijing, China. Seminar participants from outside China were mostly experienced practitioners and policymakers from 13 economies across four continents. Chinese participants consisted mainly of staff from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the People's Bank of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The main aim of the seminar was to draw on the diverse international experiences in managing cross-border capital flows and to shed light on how China should proceed to implement capital account liberalisation in the years ahead, following its recent historic entry into the WTO. The present collection includes 16 seminar papers, which are organised under the following six topics:

Our introduction should be read in close conjunction with the welcome speech by SAFE Deputy Director General Ma Delun and with the SAFE summary chapter by Wang Yungui and Xie Yuelan, which follow immediately.

Table of contents

Title Languages
  Introduction EN
  Summary EN
  Welcome speech: gradually and steadily promoting China's capital account liberalisation EN

Overview

Title Languages
  Capital account liberalisation in China: international perspectives EN
  Capital account management and its outlook in China EN
  Opening China's capital account amid ample dollar liquidity EN

Japanese experience

Title Languages
  Capital account liberalisation: the Japanese experience and implications for China EN
  Several observations on capital flows in Japan EN

Bank-related capital flows

Title Languages
  The experience of Italian banks: from strict controls to full liberalisation EN
  Liberalising the capital account without losing balance: lessons from Korea EN
  Singapore's policy of non-internationalisation of the Singapore dollar and the Asian dollar market EN

Corporate and non-bank flows

Title Languages
  France's experience of exchange controls and liberalisation EN
  Global integration and capital account liberalisation in South Africa EN
  Liberalisation and management of the private non-bank corporate capital account: the Philippine experience EN

Equity portfolio flows

Title Languages
  Operationalising capital account liberalisation: the Indian experience EN
  An overview of the Taiwanese qualified foreign institutional investor system EN

Offshore banknote flows

Title Languages
  The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's experience of managing cross-border migration of US dollar banknotes EN
  Experience of cross-border movements of Deutsche mark banknotes EN
  Offshore use of currency: Hong Kong's experience EN