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China's official reserve assets, balance of payments, and external debt — 外汇储备 (FX reserves), 国际收支 (balance of payments), 外债 (external debt) — parsed from the English-language data pages of SAFE, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局).

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FX reserves (外汇储备), IMF reserve position, SDR holdings, gold (value + ounces), other reserve assets, and the total. MONTHLY, published roughly one week after month-end. Verified 2026-09-07: August 2026 was the newest month — FX reserves USD 3,438.325bn, total official reserve assets USD 3,854.885bn — published on 2026-09-07.

• chinafxreserves({months}) — monthly official reserve assets: headline

current account (goods, services, primary/secondary income), capital and financial account (incl. the reserve-assets change), and net errors and omissions. currency is usd (default), rmb, or sdr. QUARTERLY, with roughly a 3-month lag after quarter-end — this is the standard BPM6 release cadence, not a stale site. Verified 2026-09-07: latest quarter was 2026Q1, published 2026-06-26.

• chinabalanceof_payments({quarters, currency}) — quarterly BOP summary:

(外债) since 2014Q4: total, by original-contract maturity (short/long-term), and by institutional sector (general government, central bank, other depository corporations, other sectors, direct-investment intercompany lending). Same ~3-month quarterly lag as BOP. Verified 2026-09-07: latest quarter was 2026Q1, published 2026-06-26.

• chinaexternaldebt({quarters}) — quarterly gross external debt position

three tools, read from each source page's own PubDate metadata and its attached file's upload timestamp, not the page's permalink. Use this before citing a number from the other tools if freshness matters to the caller.

• chinasafereleases({limit}) — the REAL publish dates behind the other

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Keyless.

Data sources

assets, one cumulative .xlsx per calendar year (columns YYYY.01–YYYY.12).

• — official reserve

the full BOP time series in annual + quarterly sheets, each in RMB/USD/SDR.

• — one .xlsx with

gross external debt position by sector, quarterly since 2014Q4.

• — one .xlsx with the

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