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1. Various of State Administration of Foreign Exchange building

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2. Various of entrance to Agricultural Bank of China, LED sign
3. Customers in bank
4. Bank clerk working

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5. Various of bank clerk counting Chinese yuan banknotes
6. Yuan notes going through bill counter
7. Various of clerks, customers in commercial bank
8. Various of Chinese yuan notes being counted
9. LED sign of RMB currency symbol

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10. Sign at counter reading (Chinese/English) "Currency Exchange"

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11. Various of bank clerks working in China Construction Bank, customers

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12. Various of Chinese yuan banknotes going through bill counter
13. Various of Chinese yuan, U.S. dollar banknotes on desk; banknotes being counted by bank clerk

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14. Various of Euro banknotes going through bill counter

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15. Various of brokers working on trading floor of exchange

China's commercial banks raked in both the surplus of net forex settlement and cross-border payments and receipts in the first three quarters of this year, the country's forex regulator said Friday.

The commercial banks reported a net forex settlement surplus of 180 billion U.S. dollars, and a surplus of 234.8 billion U.S. dollars in net forex settlement and sales, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) showed.

The two major indicators showed that China's stable recovery has underpinned the stable operation of the forex market, said Wang Chunying, spokeswoman with the SAFE, at a news briefing in Beijing.

During the January-September period, the willingness of market entities to sell forex remained stable, while their appetite for settle forex increased, she said.

The selling rate to measure the willingness to purchase forex, or the ratio of forex purchased by customers from banks to their forex expenditure, stood at 63.8 percent in the first nine months, remaining mostly unchanged as compared with the same period of 2020.

The settlement ratio that measures customers' willingness to settle their foreign exchange reached 66.9 percent during the period, up 2 percentage points from that of the same period of last year.