Found an interesting post on one blog:
As Caixin, media group providing financial and business news, reports, The People’s Bank of China issued a document on further consecutive prevention of risks associated with Bitcoin.
Chinese authorities’ regulation of Bitcoin has been strengthened on 3d of December, 2013, when The People’s Bank of China and five associated ministries issued “Prevention of Risks Associated with Bitcoin”.
It was required that financial and payment institutions hadn’t to use Bitcoin pricing for products or services, hadn’t to buy or sell Bitcoins, hadn’t to act as a central counterparty in Bitcoin trading, hadn’t to offer insurance products associated with Bitcoin, hadn’t to provide direct or indirect Bitcoin-related services to customers, including: registering, trading, settling, clearing or other services; accepting Bitcoin or use of Bitcoin as a clearing tool; trading Bitcoin with CNY or foreign currencies; storing, issuing Bitcoin-related financial products; and using Bitcoin as a means of investment for trusts and funds.
In March The People’s Bank of China issued “Circular on Further Strengthening Bitcoin risk prevention work”, the document required banks and third-party payment agencies to close all trading accounts within the territory of more than a dozen Bitcoin platform.
In mid-May there were already 13 banks (including five state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock commercial banks mostly) and partial payment institutions announced that hadn’t longer bitcoin trading accounts.
Currently 15 bitcoin exchanges of China were reviewed to exclude the possibility of access to the network. Among them such large-volume exchanges as BTC China and OKCoin. As soon as this news came, rumors of the possible closure of all Chinese Bitcoin exchanges spreaded immediately, and Bitcoin prices fell more than 10%. Likely with the beginning of a new day this tendency will increase.
Original post in english found here:
http://ecurrency.ec/2014/06/%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C-15-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85-bitcoin-%D0%B1%D0%B8/That blog also has a link to original post from Chinese website. Seems legit to me, but the strange thing is that CoinDesc and other major blogs know nothing about it.
I bet here are many traders from China, what's happening there? Any proof or rebuttal from CEOs of local exchanges maybe?