[Central Bank: The total amount of cross-border RMB receipts and payments by banks on behalf of customers in the first half of the year was 42.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.4%] On September 24, the central bank released a 2026 RMB internationalization report that showed that from January to June 2026, the total amount of cross-border RMB receipts and payments by banks on behalf of customers was 42.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.4%. The RMB has become China's largest settlement currency for external payments, the world's second largest trade financing currency, the third largest payment currency (on a full-scale basis), and the fifth largest foreign exchange trading currency; the RMB's weight in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency basket ranks third in the world.