In 2013, Chinese daily foreign exchange turnover was 44 billion USD, registering approximately 0.7% of total, up from 20 billion USD; the corresponding figure for the UK is 2726 billion USD (Chinn 2015: 163). Clearly, this is not a good indicator of financial development, especially given the dominance of state owned banks. Foreign exchange reserves are held in the form of government bonds so public bond market are very important. It is reported that government bond turnover ratio is rising in China, but remains low, with 1.0 vs. 14.3 in the US in 2010 (Prasad and Ye 2012: 8). If it is difficult to purchase and sell government bonds across borders, then the risk of default would be associated with bonds, then the currency would not be a potential reserve currency (Chinn 2015: 164).