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The article deals with the move by China's social security funds to embrace innovative investments to build their future reserves. Topics covered include the performance of the National Social Security Fund which is facing the need for more funds, the traditional operations of social security funds in the country, and the decision of the State Council to reduce pension insurance contributions by more than 190 billion yuan by the end of 2019.

An essay is presented which offers an analysis on the foreign exchange reserves of China which stood at 2.9982 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of January 2017. Topics covered include the concern by analysts that the reserves have breached the 3 trillion U.S. dollars psychological threshold, the possible reasons behind the falling reserves, and the amount of reserves that China would consider to be appropriate.