January 22, 2016 10:39 AM

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No plan to devalue yuan: Chinese Vice President <br/>

China&apos;s vice-president has denied the possibility of devaluation of its currency &apos;yuan&apos;. The fluctuations in the currency market are a result of market forces, and the Chinese government has no intention and no policy to devalue its currency, Li Yuanchao said this in an interview to a private news agency yesterday. He is presently in Davos of Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum&apos;s meet.Li, who is also a member of the Communist party&apos;s Politburo, also put the blame for the volatility in the yuan on the U.S. Federal Reserve&apos;s first post-crisis rate rise in December. Li also said, China is willing to keep intervening in the stock market to avoid its volatility. The yuan&apos;s sharp swings this month have sparked capital outflows from China and a selloff in its stock markets. These also stoked speculation that China might once again devalue its currency, as it did in August last year, to support a flagging economy.

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