The announcement comes via the PBOC and will take effect on January 3rd. Thus, the domestic interbank foreign exchange market, Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading System and# 0;CFETSand# 1; follow the business hours at 3:00 am local time (currently as of 11:30 p.m.). The , yuan currency time and current closing time remain unchanged, albeit at 9:15 and 16:30 local time. The change in trading hours above is said to „facilitate the development of the foreign exchange market and widen the advanced opening.” The full announcement can be found here.