央行发文推动，数字人民币跨境应用迈向具体场景落地

Group 1 - The People's Bank of China and eight other departments issued opinions to support the construction of the new western land-sea corridor, emphasizing the expansion of cross-border use of the Renminbi [1] - Digital Renminbi, as a central bank-issued legal currency, significantly improves cross-border payment efficiency, reducing settlement time to 8 seconds to 45 minutes compared to traditional methods which take 2 to 5 days [1] - The digital Renminbi has established a solid foundation for cross-border trials, with 225 million personal wallets opened and 3.32 billion transactions processed, amounting to 14.2 trillion yuan [1] Group 2 - Blockchain technology's distributed ledger characteristics enable "payment compliance," reducing cross-border payment costs to 0.1%-1%, significantly lower than the traditional 5%-10% fee rates [2] - The integration of digital Renminbi with blockchain is reshaping the underlying framework of global cross-border payments [2] - The entire industry chain will continue to release dividends, with upstream benefiting from bank IT system upgrades and wallet technology development, midstream focusing on system adaptation and cross-chain technology services, and downstream emphasizing terminal device upgrades and payment scenario expansion [2] Group 3 - Lakala is a core player in the payment ecosystem, providing terminal devices and services compatible with digital Renminbi, actively participating in the expansion of digital Renminbi scenarios [3] - Newland is focused on the research and sales of payment terminal devices, providing hardware support for the implementation of digital Renminbi, with its smart POS machines and self-service terminals already adapted for digital Renminbi payments [3]