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The article discusses how China's gold trade dynamics have shifted since 2013 when Hong Kong was the world’s largest hub for traded gold, with imports totaling 1,158 tonnes that year. However, as China relaxed its own import restrictions in 2014, the volume of gold passing through Hong Kong dropped significantly to just 67 tonnes by 2020. This shift reflects Beijing's strategy to internationalize the yuan by creating a more direct route for gold transactions and reducing reliance on Hong Kong as an intermediary.
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In 2013, one-third of the world’s traded gold passed through Hong Kong, which imported 1,158 tonnes that year, surpassing traditional top buyer India. However, most of this gold was immediately shipped to mainland China due to strict import controls there. In 2014, Beijing relaxed these restrictions, enabling more Chinese banks to purchase foreign gold directly rather than through Hong Kong. As a result, the net gold flow from Hong Kong to mainland China decreased dramatically: from 863 tonnes in 2015 down to just 67 tonnes by 2020, according to a report by the Hong Kong Legislative Council. This shift underscores China’s ambition to internationalize its currency using gold as a backing mechanism.
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Hong Kong’s bridge of gold completes China’s yuan ambition
asserted
bridge → complete → ambition
With Shanghai pricing the contracts and Hong Kong handling offshore vaulting, Beijing is building a gold-backed route to currency internationalisation
In 2013, one-third of the world’s traded gold passed through Hong Kong.
asserted
third → price → Kong
That year, the city imported 1,158 tonnes of bullion, overtaking India, the traditional top buyer.
asserted
city → import → India
For all our love of the glittering metal, little of it stayed in our vaults.
asserted
little → glitter → vaults
It mostly went straight to mainland China, where strict controls meant the bulk of its gold imports had to transit through here.
asserted
bulk → go → imports
Little did we know that things would soon be turned upside down.
asserted
things → know → ?
In 2014, China relaxed restrictions, allowing more mainland banks to buy foreign gold without routing it through Hong Kong.
asserted
banks → relax → Kong
Net gold flows to the mainland via the city fell to 863 in 2015, then to 245 tonnes in 2019, before reaching a nadir of 67 tonnes in 2020, according to a Hong Kong Legislative Council report.
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flows → fall → report
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