Came across notices from the finance offices of Nantong University and Yangzhou University: at the request of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance, starting in November 2026, salaries for established staff and personnel agency employees at both universities will be paid into digital RMB wallets.
Key deadlines: Nantong requires staff to open or upgrade their digital RMB wallets by October 30. Salary and performance pay are issued to separate cards, and wallets must be set up for both. Yangzhou’s deadline is earlier, on October 23; on October 24, it will collect wallet account details in bulk from four banks to test the payroll payment integration. The Finance Office of Jiangsu Normal University is also collecting Bank of China digital RMB wallet numbers, with a deadline of the morning of October 30.
The background is Jiangsu Provincial Government Notice [2026] No. 98, which promotes the use of digital RMB for fiscal payments such as salaries and allowances, while requiring end-to-end tracking of funds. CBDC has moved beyond pilot-program rhetoric and into a high-frequency, guaranteed-payment scenario like university payroll.
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Key deadlines: Nantong requires staff to open or upgrade their digital RMB wallets by October 30. Salary and performance pay are issued to separate cards, and wallets must be set up for both. Yangzhou’s deadline is earlier, on October 23; on October 24, it will collect wallet account details in bulk from four banks to test the payroll payment integration. The Finance Office of Jiangsu Normal University is also collecting Bank of China digital RMB wallet numbers, with a deadline of the morning of October 30.
The background is Jiangsu Provincial Government Notice [2026] No. 98, which promotes the use of digital RMB for fiscal payments such as salaries and allowances, while requiring end-to-end tracking of funds. CBDC has moved beyond pilot-program rhetoric and into a high-frequency, guaranteed-payment scenario like university payroll.
#数字人民币 #CBDC