Central Bank: Continue to improve the statistics on the total amount of monetary and financial data and specialized structural statistics

On March 27, the People’s Bank of China held a televised meeting on 2026 survey and statistics work. The meeting held that in 2025, the PBOC’s survey and statistics line focused on the central bank’s key responsibilities, innovated its thinking, overcame tough challenges, and achieved notable results in high-quality development of survey and statistics work. It efficiently established and implemented the “1+N” statistical system for the financial “five major articles,” providing strong data support for policy formulation and effect evaluation. It made a determined push to strictly ensure data quality, conducted law-enforcement inspections in strict accordance with requirements, and resolutely safeguarded the authority of the central bank’s financial statistics. It gave full play to the hub function of the National Financial Information Database, advanced integrated financial statistics for the financial sector in depth, conducted in-depth statistics on local government financing platform debt, and solidly carried out survey and research to improve the ability to analyze and forecast the situation, while continuously enhancing the level of situation assessment and monitoring. The meeting required that in 2026, the survey and statistics line should take political building as the guiding framework, and establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. In line with the modern central bank system, it should continue to improve the integrated financial statistics system and standards, and firmly lay a foundation for financial statistics work. It should complete the statistics for the financial “five major articles” and local government financing platform debt with high quality, and continue to do a good job with monetary and financial aggregate statistics and structural special statistics, effectively serving the overall goal of high-quality development. It should make full use of the functions of the National Financial Information Database, dig deeper into the value of data, carry out in-depth survey and research, analyze structural trends, and enhance the sensitivity and foresight of situation analysis, providing key information support for macroeconomic regulation and risk prevention. It should uphold and steadily practice strict, no-relenting efforts to ensure data quality, and maintain the seriousness and standardization of financial statistics. (PBOC)