Measures for Reporting Balance of Payments Statistics

Measures for Reporting Balance of Payments Statistics

Order of the People's Bank of China [1995] No.2

September 14, 1995

(Adopted by the State Council on August 30, 1995, and issued according to the Order of the People's Bank of China [1995] No.2 on September 14, 1995)
　
Article 1 In order to improve balance of payments statistics, these Measures are formulated according to the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China.
　
Article 2 The scope of reporting balance of payments covers all and any econimic transactions between Chinese residents and non-Chinese residents.
　
Article 3 In these Measures, Chinese residents refer to:
1. natural persons who stay in the territory of China for not less than one year, except for students and persons accepting medical treatment who are from foreign countries and the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreign staff members of foreign embassies and consulates in China and their family members;
2. Chinese citizens staying abroad for a short period of time (less than one year), Chinese students studying abroad, Chinese patients seeking medical treatment abroad and staff members of Chinese embassies or consulates and their family members;
3. enterprises or institutions (including enterprises with foreign investment and financial institutions with foreign capital) with legal person status established within China according to law and offices resided in China of legal persons outside China (not including agencies stationed in China of international organizations nor foreign embassies or consulates stationed in China; and
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