In November 2004, the inter-bank transaction system was successfully connected with the PBC large-value payment system, which means the interbank real time payment and settlement can be conducted through bankcards.
In the past few years, the quality of the nationwide system has greatly enhanced, the efficiency of error correction has improved, and the success rate for local and trans-regional transaction has increased from 83.1% and 61.7% to 96.8% and 95.3% at the end of 2005.