Chinese firms are playing a positive role in the socioeconomic development of Kenya, an economic expert said Tuesday.

China will release the sixth list of major foreign investment projects and further expand the 2022 industry catalog of sectors encouraging foreign investment as part of its latest efforts to advance high-level opening-up, a senior government official said on Monday.

Infrastructure real estate investment trusts (REITs), which have been rolled out in China for more than one year, have been receiving increasing attention from mature investors and local governments, facilitating the country's high-quality economic growth, said officials and experts.

The preliminary estimate of Macao's foreign exchange reserves amounted to 210.4 billion patacas (about 26.02 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of September 2022, the special administrative region's (SAR) monetary watchdog said on Friday.

The value of transactions using the digital yuan has topped 100 billion yuan ($13.94 billion) with a variety of e-CNY application scenarios formed, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, said on Wednesday.

While excluding the possibility of a one-sided performance of the renminbi exchange rate, the People's Bank of China will make continued efforts to deepen reform in the foreign exchange market and refrain from drastic ups and downs in the Chinese currency, the country's central bank said in an article released on Tuesday.

China's central bank said on Wednesday that it will continue to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the digital yuan, and will coordinate personal privacy protection and security compliance.

China invested a record 823.6 billion yuan (115.88 billion U.S. dollars) in water conservancy facilities from January to September, up 64.1 percent year on year, Vice Minister of Water Resources Liu Weiping said on Tuesday.

Chinese online retailers are speeding up efforts to expand their presence in overseas markets amid a broader drive to diversify revenue sources and hedge against the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, industry experts said.

Hong Kong has huge opportunities for future development as an international financial center, said Paul Chan, financial secretary of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government.

China will steadily advance the process of the renminbi's internationalization and the country will make its financial market more accessible to international investors in terms of product supply and trading mechanisms to achieve the goal of lifting the global profile of the Chinese currency, industry experts said.

China's central bank on Monday said that it has renewed a bilateral currency swap deal with the European Central Bank (ECB).