Pound to yuan, worked back from what you can spend
Start from the budget. Finish at the yuan figure your supplier will actually invoice.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
100, 1,000 and 10,000 yuan to pounds at this rate
- ¥100
- ≈ £11.01
- ¥1,000
- ≈ £110.11
- ¥10,000
- ≈ £1,101.11
- £1,000.00
- ≈ ¥9,081.71
- £10,000.00
- ≈ ¥90,817.15
- £100,000.00
- ≈ ¥908,171.47
Size an invoice in yuan
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ £1,101.11
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
Going the other way — GBP to CNY rather than CNY to GBP — is usually a negotiating question, not a payment one. You have a number in mind and want to know what it buys in yuan before you agree it. Unigox gives you that figure against a live reference rate, then settles whatever CNY total you land on from the USDT or USDC in your Unigox Wallet. No sterling leg is involved at any point.
- Budget converted for negotiation
- Invoice settled at the agreed CNY
- Business account destination
From a sterling budget to an agreed CNY invoice
Convert the budget to see roughly what it buys in yuan, agree the CNY figure with your supplier, then fund that exact invoice from your wallet balance.
- Start from
- GBP budget
- Land on
- CNY figure
- Settle from
- GBP · USDT · USDC
GBP
Bank transfer in the United Kingdom, then USDT
USDT
Native Unigox Wallet
USDC
Native Unigox Wallet
Recipient gets
ChinaCNY
The exact yuan stated on the invoice, paid to the recipient in China.
How many yuan is a pound worth?
The reference rate on this page runs the other direction from a CNY-to-GBP quote, and the two will not be exact reciprocals of each other once a route and a spread are attached to either. For sizing a negotiation, the reference figure is what you want. For settling, the binding number is the one the payment flow issues against the specific invoice you agreed.
Sterling is a reference currency on this route, not yet a funding one. Settlement runs from a USDT or USDC balance while the GBP pay-in rail is being integrated.
From recipient details to a tracked CNY payment
- 01
Add the recipient
Choose the supported China destination and enter the recipient details exactly as provided.
- 02
Enter the CNY invoice
Add the amount, purpose, relationship and optional invoice reference before pricing.
- 03
Choose how to fund
Select USDT or USDC from your native Unigox Wallet.
- 04
Review and follow the payment
Confirm the exact source and destination amounts, then follow the status from the same flow.
Pay from where your money already is
Unigox Wallet
Choose USDT or USDC
- Choose USDT or USDC
- Review the required wallet amount
- The recipient still receives CNY
Stablecoin rates and top-ups
Why the two directions are not mirror images
Converting GBP to CNY and CNY to GBP look like the same arithmetic run backwards, and as pure reference figures they nearly are. They stop being symmetrical the moment a real payment is attached, because a payment has a direction: one currency is funded and the other is delivered, and the spread, the route and the fees all sit on that direction rather than being shared evenly across it.
In practice this matters when you are checking a supplier's own conversion. A quote they produced from their side of the corridor will not match one produced from yours, and neither is necessarily wrong. What settles the question is the CNY figure on the invoice, because that is the number their bank will receive.
Agreeing a figure you can actually pay
Before agreeing a CNY total, it is worth checking it against the route rather than only against your budget. Payout limits apply and are shown in the flow: an invoice can be too small to be worth routing, and a large one may need to be staged. Finding that out at the negotiation stage is cheaper than finding it out after a purchase order.
It is also worth confirming what the supplier's account actually is. The supported destination on this route is a Chinese business bank account, and a supplier who intends to be paid into a personal account or a wallet is describing a different transaction from the one this route carries.
- Confirm the invoice is denominated in CNY, not in a currency the supplier converts themselves.
- Confirm the destination is a business bank account at a mainland Chinese bank — a Hong Kong account and a personal account are both outside this route.
- Check the total against the route's limits before the figure is agreed rather than after.
Built for the way the United Kingdom pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for the United Kingdom, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
Pound-to-yuan questions
01My supplier quoted in pounds. Should I ask them to reissue in yuan?
Yes, and it is usually an easy ask. A supplier quoting in pounds has done their own conversion at their own rate and folded a margin into it that you cannot see, because it is inside the price rather than beside it. Asking for the same quote in CNY moves that conversion to your side of the table, where you can read it against the reference on this page. Most Chinese suppliers who quote in sterling will reissue in yuan on request; a few will not, and that in itself is worth knowing before the first order.
02Does anything about this route change because the pound is not a pay-in currency?
It changes what you fund from, and nothing else. There is no sterling collection leg here: no Faster Payments, no card, no direct debit. The payment starts from a USDT or USDC balance in your Unigox Wallet, and the supplier receives ordinary CNY into a mainland company account exactly as they would from any other market. The pound's job on this page is to size the invoice and to be the currency your books are kept in, which is the same job it does for a payer who does have a local rail.
03Why does my supplier's conversion differ from yours?
A conversion produced from their side of the corridor carries their route and their spread; one produced from yours carries yours. The figure that settles it is the CNY total on the invoice, because that is what their bank receives.
04Can I lock a rate while I negotiate?
No, and nothing on this page pretends otherwise: the figure at the top is a timestamped reading, not a price we are holding for you. What the flow issues, at the point you are ready to fund a specific invoice, is a payable amount that stays good for a short window and is then re-priced rather than honoured stale. That is a shelf life, not a lock — the distinction matters if you are negotiating over days.
05What happens if the invoice is very small?
Payout limits apply on this route and a small invoice can fall below its floor. The flow shows the applicable range before you commit rather than failing after funding.
Agree the yuan figure, then settle it
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare GBP, USDT, USDC before funding.
Work out the yuan figureRelated China guides
Built primarily for businesses
Built for importers and repeat supplier payers. A private individual paying a business invoice runs the same checks and gets the same quote — the recipient on this route is always a company.