The first issue of China Money, a monthly periodical focusing on the development of the country's fledgling monetary market, has been published in Shanghai, east China.

The magazine, authorized by the People's Bank of China, the central bank, is co-sponsored by the Shanghai-based China Foreign Exchange Trade System and the National Interbank Funding Center.

According to sources, the monthly publication targets financial officials and experts as well as those who are participating in or interested in China's financial market.

(Xinhua News Agency November 6, 2001)