Management Research Of China's Foreign Exchange Reserves

The main contents of this paper are divided into two parts: the use and the risk management of China's foreign exchange reserves. As the use of foreign exchange reserves is the prerequisite for risk management and the risk management is the improvement of the use of foreign exchange reserves, the two parts are close relation.Firstly, this paper described the status que of China's foreign exchange reserves management, found the reasons and the pros and cons of the growth in China's foreign exchange reserves ,then, estimated the loss of China's foreign exchange reserves.Contrasted the management of Singapore, South Korea and Japan, This paper got some successful experience. The paper classified China's foreign exchange reserves into three categories based on the foreign exchange reserves demand motivation, estimated the annual size of China's foreign exchange reserves from 2001 to 2005 ,analyzed the use range and existing form of each category. Secondly, this paper held that diversified sources and uses of China's foreign exchange reserves are doomed to diversified management. So, besides expounded the functions and business scope of the three management organizations of China's foreign exchange reserves, this paper also constituted index system and evaluation model to evaluate the integrated performance of the organizations. Thirdly, on the basis of the management, this paper did some research on the risk management, and described the meaning, the reason and the classification of foreign exchange risk. And lastly, this paper used the VaR model to evaluate the risk and found out we can use VaR model and internal control method to prevent the risk.Finally,this paper gave some conclusions and policy advices about the management of the reserves and some author's prospects.