Deputy Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Li Bin: The total scale of banks' foreign exchange sales and purchases in the first half of the year reached 2.3 trillion US dollars, the second highest in history for the same period.

On July 22, Li Bin, deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and spokesperson, stated at a press conference that in the first half of the year, the total scale of bank foreign exchange purchases and sales reached 2.3 trillion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 3%, reaching a historical high for the same period.