Europe, on the other hand, is a gold standard region, and gold has always been the main currency. Therefore, Europeans value gold reserves more historically and traditionally, and the United States belongs to Europe culturally and historically.
Second, what you see is basically the reserve data of central banks released in the 1960s and 1980s after World War II. The last time the Bank of China updated its gold reserves was in the 1990s. As the western media said in recent years, gold entering China will be kept in the dark for hundreds of years. In recent years, the Bank of China has greatly increased its gold reserves to hedge the risk of huge foreign exchange reserves of US dollars. But all this is silent and unknown. In fact, China's gold reserves should now rank third or even second. If we count private reserves in a broad sense, it must be the second place in the world after the United States. Because China traditionally likes to consume gold ornaments for solar weddings, Chinese aunts have bought a lot of gold at the bottom in recent years.
Third, it is no longer the gold standard. Gold is only an auxiliary important financial reserve and financial tool, which can play a role in stabilizing and regulating finance at critical times. The amount of gold reserves does not directly represent a country's comprehensive strength. Otherwise, India's private gold reserve rate ranks first in the world, so India's national strength ranks first in the world?
In fact, at present, a ton of gold is 260 million RMB, about 435 million US dollars/ton, and China has a reserve of more than 3 trillion US dollars. If you want to get the first place in gold reserves, you only need to take out hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves, which is not difficult. If the first gold reserve is equal to the first national strength, I think the country has already done it. .