March 28 (Bloomberg) -- China overtook Japan to become the world's largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves, the state- owned China Business News said, citing people it didn't identify.

The reserves stood at $853.7 billion on Feb. 28, compared $845.2 billion on Jan. 31 and Japan's $850.1 billion in reserves, the newspaper said. The figure has yet to be confirmed by the central bank, said the paper, a venture between the Shanghai government and two media groups. An official at the People's Bank of China declined to comment.

Ballooning reserves may intensify pressure from the U.S. to relax controls on the yuan, which was revalued by 2.1 percent in July and is managed against a basket of currencies. U.S. senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham, who visited China last week, are considering pushing legislation that would put punitive tariffs on Chinese imports.

``The pressure is decidedly building,'' said Brad Setser, a former Treasury official and now an economist at......

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