Top planner upbeat about economic growth hopes
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ATAHK reads from China daily on Feb 04, 2016 that China is confident of maintaining last year's economic growth momentum based on promisingdata from its service and technology industries, a top planning official said on Wednesday.
"China will not see a hard landing," said Xu Shaoshi, Minister of the National Developmentand Reform Commission.
"Making a hard landing is not a realistic scenario," he said in response to comments voiced byinternational speculators.
The country had been "doing well enough" to achieve 6.9 percent GDP growth last year,contributing 15 percent of the world’s total economic growth, Xu said.
China also helped the global economy with $127.6 billion of direct overseas investment, a 10percent increase year-on-year, the minister said.
However, it will not aim for double-digit growth. The strategic focus will be on "mending theeconomy’s weak points" and building up its structural strength. This year, the country will alsostrive for relatively stable prices and for a mild urban unemployment rate.
Yu Bin, a senior economist at the State Council Development Research Center, said Chinawill have to seek annual growth of more than 6.5 percent through the 13th Five-Year Plan(2016-20) to achieve its goal of doubling its 2010 GDP in 10 years.
He Zhicheng, chief economist at Agricultural Bank of China, said many local governmentshave adopted a more flexible range for local economic growth this year. China may as wellabandon a specific growth target as long as it can maintain a steady course of growth, Hesaid.
The greatest challenge is how to create more profitable enterprises, which can only stem fromcontinuous reforms, according to He.
The government has plans to deal with the economic slowdown and the overcapacity that isplaguing some industries. It can use public investment projects to prevent a future slowdown,He added.
Niu Li, director of macroeconomics at the State Information Center, said that whilemaintaining more-flexible growth ambitions, China might create more room for reform and forphasing out unwanted industrial capacity.
He Fan, chief economist at Caixin Insight Group, said that after contributing more than 50percent of the economic growth last year, service industries have had a strong start to 2016,with business activity increasing at the fastest rate in six months.
The Caixin China General Services purchasing manufacturers index for January stood at52.4, the highest level since July.
He, the Caixin economist, argued that if the government can continue reforms and cut morebureaucracy, greater potential from the service industries can be unleashed to generate moregrowth for the economy.
Zhang Jun, dean of Fudan University’s School of Economics, said there will be greateruncertainties in the stock market and the exchange market this year. A more flexible growthtarget will enable the government to pay more attention to the financial market situation.
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