SAFE Revises Statistical System for External Financial Assets and Liabilities and Foreign Transactions

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has revised and issued the Statistical System for External Financial Assets and Liabilities and Foreign Transactions (the "Statistical System"), effective from October 1, 2025.

The Statistical System aims to make the balance of payments statistics more comprehensive, timely, and accurate, better aligning with the latest international standards. The main revisions include: (1) refining the classification of non-financial institution reporting entities to improve the convenience for data reporting; (2) incorporating trade credit survey statistics into external financial assets, liabilities, and transaction statistics to ensure integration of data collection elements; (3) adjusting statistical forms for international transportation surveys and other surveys to improve the data sources for balance of payments statistics; and (4) optimizing the scope of data collection and the definition of data elements, and adjusting certain code tables in appendix.



(Source: http://www.safe.gov.cn/safe/2025/0508/26067.html)

Note: The link to the Chinese official website of the document is for your reference.