他们指出，毕竟，在中国外汇储备从2014年二季度到2016年年底减少了1万亿美元的同时，私人部门持有的外国资产也增加了9,000亿美元。
After all, they pointed out, as China’s foreign-exchange reserves fell by $1 trillion from the second quarter of 2014 to the end of 2016, holdings of foreign assets by the private sector increased by $900 billion.