China had to make some concessions to get the yuan into the SDR basket.<p>Most notably they have committed to issue 3 month T-Bills every week and to allow foreign central banks to access their currency and bond markets.<p>Note also that this doesn&#x27;t take place until October of 2016 so there should be no immediate impact on the markets.  Also note the SDR has a very minor share of the global currency reserves so this is more symbolic at the moment.