Odaily Planet Daily News The People’s Bank of China’s 2026 work conference was held on January 5-6. The conference emphasized researching and establishing a financial statistics system and standard framework that matches the modern central bank system, continuing to do well in the five major financial articles and statistical monitoring in key areas such as financing platform debt. Consolidating the achievements of cash usage environment construction. Continuously improving the efficiency of treasury management. Prudently implementing the one-time personal credit repair policy. Further improving the social credit system. Normalizing and implementing long-term optimization of payment services for the elderly and foreign visitors. Strictly implementing penetrating supervision of payment institutions and payment business function supervision. Strengthening virtual currency regulation and continuing to crack down on related illegal and criminal activities. Deepening technology management and innovation applications. Steadily developing digital yuan. (Jin Shi)