CNY macro coverage

China Economic Indicators

Chinese yuan / renminbi — the managed currency of the world's second-largest economy.

The Chinese yuan (CNY), also called the renminbi (RMB), is the official currency of mainland China. It trades onshore as CNY (within a daily band set by the People's Bank of China) and offshore as CNH in Hong Kong and other financial centres.

China macro brief

Use this hub as the starting point for China macro series, release history, and API endpoint documentation.

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) sets the daily USD/CNY mid-point fix and uses a range of policy tools — the medium-term lending facility (MLF) rate, reserve requirement ratio (RRR), open-market operations, and the loan prime rate (LPR) — to manage liquidity and credit conditions.

The pages below are organized by indicator rather than API route. That keeps the public website useful for research while still preserving direct links into the versioned API documentation for developers.

What to watch
  • PBoC daily fix and LPR / MLF announcements.
  • Monthly NBS and Caixin PMIs.
  • Quarterly GDP and monthly activity data.
  • Total social financing and new yuan loans.
  • USD/CNH offshore as a real-time risk gauge.

Key China indicators

The highest-signal country pages for rates, inflation, growth, labour markets, and external balances.

All China indicator pages

Filter by indicator name, source, cadence, or category.

CNY market drivers

Evergreen macro forces to keep beside the country data table.

Driver 1

PBoC daily USD/CNY mid-point fix and policy-tool announcements.

Driver 2

China NBS PMI, Caixin PMI, retail sales, and industrial production.

Driver 3

China property-sector data and credit aggregates (TSF, M2).

Driver 4

US-China yield differential and DXY moves.

Driver 5

Trade-balance data and capital-flow indicators.

Driver 6

Geopolitical and trade-policy news, particularly with the US.