Open Market Operations in China： Practice and Experience

On the basis of reviewing the reform on open mar-ket operations, this paper analyzes the framework, op-erational target and basic experience of open marketoperations of the People's Bank of China. The authorpoints out that open market operations need to be coor-dinated with the use of other monetary policyinstruments; the infrastructure of open market opera-tions should be strengthened, and the development ofthe money market and the bond market should be fur-ther promoted. The author ends this article with theoutlook for open market operations in the future.