BEIJING - The surplus of Chinese banks' foreign exchange purchases to sales in transactions with clients in July reached $26.6 billion, revealed statistics of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) Tuesday.
Summer Davos 2010 in Tianjin The figure did not include the larger amount from banks' own forex transactions and interbank transactions, according to the statement.
The surplus of Chinese banks' foreign exchange purchases to sales in transactions with clients was $66.5 billion in the second quarter, compared with $92.7 billion in the first quarter.
The SAFE only started releasing monthly and quarterly data on bank foreign exchange transactions this year. In 2009, the annual surplus fell 42 percent to $263.5 billion, according to SAFE's data released in March.
By the end of June this year, China's foreign exchange reserves rose 15.1 percent year-on-year to $2.4543 trillion.
