China Says It Must Add To Gold Reserves To Promote Yuan Globalization And As An FX Hedge!

• China Says It Must Add To Gold Reserves To Promote Yuan Globalization And As An FX Hedge! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  Back in September, when we provided the monthly observation on what has become a record year to date surge in Chinese imports of gold from Hong Kong, we reminded readers that “in December 2009, the China Youth Daily quoted State Council advisor Ji as saying that a team of experts from Beijing and Shanghai have set up a “task force” last year to consider growing China’s gold reserves. “We suggested that China’s gold reserves should reach 6,000 tons in the next 3-5 years and perhaps 10,000 tons in 8-10 years,” the paper quoted him. Has China managed to accumulated 6,000 tons yet?  We won’t know for sure until the official disclosure which will come when China is ready and not a moment earlier, but at the current run-rate of accumulation which is just shy of 1,000 tons per year, it is certainly within the realm of possibilities that China is now the second largest holder of gold in the world, surpassing Germany’s 3,395 tons and second only to the US.”
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  Two days ago we showed that the relentless importing of gold in China continues, yet what has been missing is an update direct form the horse’s mouth how China feels toward gold (because we certainly know how it feels toward US Treasury paper). Today, we finally got one straight from Beijing, and that during a very carefully supervised time when the 18th Communist Congress is still in session, and every word out of China has profoundly telegraphic implications.
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