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CHENGDU, Dec.16 (NBD) -- China will reinforce supervision on transactions on real estate, precious metal, and artworks to prevent the transactions becoming breeding ground for money laundering, Guo Qingping, vice-governor of People's Bank of China said on Thursday.

Speaking at 2016 Anti-Money Laundering Summit, Guo raised that as anti-money laundering supervisions are prevailing in financial industry, new trend avenues for money-laundering has emerged.

"We paid little attention to the money laundering activities in non-financial fields in the past, but now we are facing poignant problems."

He also urged to establish an anti-money laundering monitoring system in the non-financial fields.

The vice-governor listed four fields to watch out: money laundering through financial institution, money laundering through non-financial institution, internet-based money laundering, and outbound money laundering.

2016 is the tenth anniversary of Anti-Money Laundering Law. Guo noted that during the past ten years, China has achieved a lot in anti-money laundering, but still faces challenges.

Editor: Tan Yuhan