國際貨幣基金組織將人民幣納入主要貨幣大綱
The International Monetary Fund added China's yuan to its basket of key global currencies on Monday, a move that gives new status to the world's second leading economy.
國際貨幣基金組織星期一將人民幣納入其關鍵國際貨幣籃子。這給與全球第二大經濟體一個新的地位。
The IMF said that the Yuan, also known as the Renminbi, "met all existing criteria," to be added to the U.S. dollar, Europe's euro, the Japanese Yen and the British Pound as one of the currencies in the world organization's Special Drawing Rights grouping, the financial standard it uses in issuing crisis loans to its 188 member nations. The action takes effect next October.
國際貨幣基金組織說，人民幣“符合所有現有條件“加入該組織特別提款權貨幣羣。這些貨幣包括美元、歐元、日元和英鎊。特別提款權是該組織用於向188個成員國發放危機貸款的金融標準。這一決定將於明年10月生效。
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the decision is "an important milestone in the integration of the Chinese economy into the global financial system."
國際貨幣基金組織總裁拉加德說，這個決定是“中國經濟和全球金融系統整合中一個重要的里程碑。”
"It is also a recognition," she said, "of the progress that the Chinese authorities have made in the past years in reforming China's monetary and financial systems."
她還表示，這也是“對中國當局在過去一些年改革中國貨幣和金融系統的認可。”
The Special Drawing Rights are not a freely traded currency, but are important as an international reserve asset. Analysts say the IMF action could push Beijing to live up to its promises to make the Yuan even more "freely usable" across the world, a standard the IMF concluded Beijing has already met.
特別提款權並非自由交易的貨幣，但是作爲一種國際儲備資產而具有重要性。分析人士說，國際貨幣基金組織的決定將促使北京兌現其承諾，讓人民幣在全球各地更爲“自由使用”，國際貨幣基金組織認爲北京已經做到這一點。
The yuan will have a 10.92 percent weighting in the IMF's currency basket, a measure that determines which currencies countries can receive when they secure IMF loans. When the yuan is added to the basket of currencies, the dollar will retain its share of about 42 percent, with reduced shares for the euro, British sterling and the Japanese yen.
在國際貨幣基金組織的貨幣籃子中，人民幣的權重爲10.92％，這是用來衡量在得到該組織的貸款時該貨幣國得到的比重。人民幣加入之後，美元仍維持42％的權重，而歐元、英鎊和日元的權重降低。
The addition of the Yuan to the IMF basket could give it new respect in world financial markets, possibly fueling demand for the currency and for Yuan-dominated assets.
除此之外，人民幣被納入國際貨幣基金組織的貨幣籃子將使得人民幣在全球金融市場得到新的地位，可能會促使對人民幣和人民幣爲主的資產的需求。
