	china allows nationwide foreign exchange saving people throughout china can now open foreign exchange accounts at the bank of china the official shenzhen economic zone daily said previously only residents of guangdong and fujian provinces could do this the paper also said the minimum for opening a fixed deposit account had been cut to yuan equivalent from yuan the minimum for a current account is yuan equivalent the paper said depositors could now withdraw all or part of their account subject to a branch s reserves instead of only a fixed amount as previously the paper said deposits may now be opened in french francs as well as the already available u s dollar hong kong dollar sterling yen and marks bank of china branches in hainan island also accept deposits in singapore dollars and those in wenzhou zhejiang province accept deposits in dutch guilders the paper said it gave no further details reuter 
