Regarding work on anti-money laundering (AML) in 2017, the People’s Bank of China (PBC), with a focus on safeguarding national security and social stability, implemented major arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, and achieved remarkable results in the fight against criminal activities of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF). The PBC carried out thorough studies and applications of ML typologies to enhance fund monitoring for AML purposes by obligatory institutions. The number of ML investigations conducted and assisted by the PBC recorded a new high, which facilitated lawsuits and trials of ML cases. TF transaction monitoring models were further improved to fully leverage the role of AML departments in the national fight against terrorism. In addition, the PBC joined hands with other authorities and launched a special work against export tax rebate fraud and issuance of false value-added tax (VAT) invoices as well as a special campaign against transferring proceeds of crimes by means of offshore companies and underground banks, both of which harvested substantive results. Moreover, the PBC formulated and issued the Notice of the People’s Bank of China on Strengthening the Administration of Account Opening and the Follow-up Control Measures for Suspicious Transaction Reports (Yinfa No.117 [2017]), requiring financial institutions to strengthen administration of account opening and the follow-up control measures for suspicious transaction reports, and specifying multiple control measures that can be lawfully adopted to prevent ML and other criminal activities in a timely manner. In 2017, the number of clues transferred from PBC branches to investigation authorities following ML investigations into key suspicious transaction reports increased by 35.7 percent year on year. The number of suspected ML cases processed by investigation authorities with the support of the PBC increased by 10.6 percent year on year, and the number of suspected ML cases and other cases solved with the PBC’s assistance increased by 8.4 percent year on year.