Zhou Xiaochuan: Last year China's gold mining volume was the world's first

China Network March 11 news conference of the National People's Congress four times this morning, the theme is "monetary policy and Financial Issues" press conference, PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor of the People's Bank of Liu Shiyu,　　Deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and foreign Exchange Administration director Yi Gang attended the media interview. Zhou Xiaochuan said that China has always been a big producer of gold, to be sorted according to the year, we can check, last year, China's gold mining is the world's first.　　From the point of view of the consumption of gold, China once, in the 80 's, the early 90, the Chinese people in the gold and silver jewelry consumption is very large, but then tend to smooth, is actually relatively stable situation. Zhou Xiaochuan said that China has a portion of industrial gold, mainly the electronics industry and so on, in addition to these, residents will also buy gold. Therefore, although we have a small production, but also import part of the year. Of course, this habit is also gradually changing, compared to speaking, Indians consume more gold than we do.　　In general, there is no significant change. But in recent years, there are probably two reasons for the growth in gold consumption: On the one hand, gold prices have risen too fast in recent times, especially since the global financial crisis, giving us a lot of traction.　　Of course, some people will expect it to continue to rise, but this should be said to have a certain risk. On the other hand, Zhou said, in various types of investment, as you said, he will choose the various types of investment, which investment is now relatively large, the risk is relatively small. So in the current market stage, a lot of people think, maybe gold is a better investment direction. I think they should be respected for their own discretion.　　But to speak of the future, all kinds of judgments have their own uncertainties, facing their own need to manage the risk. Of course, for Chinese investors, there are relatively few options available to them for investment. In the process of development, the economy should constantly develop new channels, renew financial services, and perhaps have new-type financial institutions to help different types of investors adapt to their tastes and provide them with investment options.