diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7f107c4bc93..b4ba88390c2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 /lib/
 build/apache-maven*
 build/sbt-launch-*.jar
+build/sbt-config/repositories-local
 cache
 checkpoint
 conf/*.cmd
diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index e7715c98e53..a4d3424b349 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -35,4 +35,5 @@ assets/**
 build/apache-maven-*/**
 build/scala-*/**
 build/sbt-config/repositories
+build/sbt-config/repositories-cn.template
 **/benchmarks/**
diff --git a/build/sbt b/build/sbt
index 518513d95cd..8251f889e91 100755
--- a/build/sbt
+++ b/build/sbt
@@ -20,9 +20,17 @@
 SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)
 . "$SELF/util.sh"
 
-echo "The CN repositories are to be enabled by default for the purpose of downloading bootstrap/plugin/dependencies jars."
-SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG="$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/sbt-config/repositories-cn"
-export SBT_OPTS="${SBT_OPTS:="-Dsbt.override.build.repos=true -Dsbt.repository.config=$SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG"}"
+# Check if repositories-local file exists, otherwise use repositories
+SBT_REPOSITORIES_LOCAL_CONFIG="$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/sbt-config/repositories-local"
+SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG="$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/sbt-config/repositories"
+
+if [ -f "$SBT_REPOSITORIES_LOCAL_CONFIG" ]; then
+  SBT_OPTS="${SBT_OPTS:="-Dsbt.override.build.repos=true -Dsbt.repository.config=$SBT_REPOSITORIES_LOCAL_CONFIG"}"
+else
+  SBT_OPTS="${SBT_OPTS:="-Dsbt.override.build.repos=true -Dsbt.repository.config=$SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG"}"
+fi
+
+export SBT_OPTS
 
 . "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")"/sbt-launch-lib.bash
 
diff --git a/build/sbt-config/repositories-cn b/build/sbt-config/repositories-cn.template
similarity index 100%
rename from build/sbt-config/repositories-cn
rename to build/sbt-config/repositories-cn.template