BEIJING: China’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen to their lowest level since 2012, reports said on Sunday, as Beijing sells dollars to prevent the yuan from depreciating further.

The world’s largest currency hoard shrank by $99.5 billion in January to some $3.2 trillion, Bloomberg News cited the People’s Bank of China as saying.

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