Governor takes bow after years of success

His news conference earlier this month will probably be the last one held by Zhou Xiaochuan as China's central bank governor.

On Monday, a new central bank chief may take the baton from him, and the sound foundation laid during Zhou's 15 years of tenure will help inject confidence to achieve further progress in China's financial reform.

Zhou has made some crucial steps and pushed forward reforms in several key fields, such as efforts to promote an exchange rate regime and to improve the yuan's global status through adding it to the Special Drawing Rights basket to better integrate the Chinese economy into the global financial system.