China News Service Client, April 17 (Xie Yiguan) State Department of Foreign Exchange Spokesperson, Chief Economist, Director of the Department of International Payments Wang Chunying said at a press conference on the 17th that the scale of foreign exchange reserves is generally stable. As of the end of the first quarter of 2020, the balance of foreign exchange reserves was 30.606 trillion US dollars, a decrease of 1.5% from the beginning of the year, mainly due to the combined effects of exchange rate conversion and changes in asset prices.