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Central Bank Total Assets (CNY)

Total assets on the central bank's balance sheet, reflecting the scale of monetary policy operations including quantitative easing programs.

Category: Monetary Policy

API Endpoint

/api/v1/announcements/cny/cb_assets

Use the production OpenAPI schema for the authoritative REST route metadata.

https://fxmacrodata.com/api/openapi.json

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About Central Bank Total Assets (CNY)

China's central bank total assets represent the size of the People's Bank of China's balance sheet, including domestic and foreign securities, loans to banks, and gold. Balance sheet expansion is the mechanism of quantitative easing (QE).

Why FX traders watch it

A rapidly expanding central bank balance sheet (QE) injects liquidity into the financial system and typically weakens the cny. Balance sheet reduction (QT, or quantitative tightening) is the opposite—draining reserves and supporting the cny.

How to interpret the data

Accelerating balance sheet growth is cny-negative as it signals monetary easing. Declining total assets indicate QT is underway, which is restrictive and tends to support the cny all else being equal.

Historical Central Bank Total Assets (CNY)

Source: NBS/PBoC  ·  Monthly  ·  CNY tn

Chart data not available. Access the full historical series via the API endpoint above.

Data provided by FXMacroData via the /api/v1/announcements/cny/cb_assets endpoint. For access, see pricing.

Data Source

Primary Source

NBS/PBoC

Official Series ID

PBoC Balance Sheet

Data Format and Properties

Data Frequency

Monthly

Unit of Measure

CNY tn

JSON Response Structure

The endpoint returns a chronological list of observations in JSON format. 

{
    "currency": "CNY",
    "indicator": "cb_assets",
    "has_official_forecast": false,
    "start_date": "2023-01-01",
    "end_date": "2023-12-31",
    "data": [
        {
            "date": "2024-07-01",
            "val": 4.2,
            "announcement_datetime": 1722456000
        }
    ]
}

Request Parameters & Usage

Parameter Required Format Description
start_date NO YYYY-MM-DD Optional lower bound for the requested history.
end_date NO YYYY-MM-DD Optional upper bound. Defaults to the current date.
api_key CONDITIONAL string Required for non-USD announcement requests. USD announcement requests are public without an API key.

Example Usage

To retrieve Central Bank Total Assets data for CNY from 2023: 

GET https://fxmacrodata.com/api/v1/announcements/cny/cb_assets?start_date=2023-01-01&end_date=2023-12-31&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY