Country has enough ‘resilience, potential… and 1.4 billion people’ to keep world’s second-largest economy on track, Li tells foreign academics
China is confident it can maintain its economic growth within “an appropriate range” this year despite the prevailing headwinds, state media quoted Premier Li Keqiang as saying.
Speaking in Beijing on Friday at a gathering of foreign academics – including American Paul Romer, a winner of the Nobel prize for economics – Li highlighted the country’s vast resources and determination to keep the government’s expansion plans on track, Xinhua reported.
“China’s economy has enough resilience, potential and room for growth, especially with a huge domestic market and rich human resources of nearly 1.4 billion people,” he said.
“Therefore, we are fully confident and capable of keeping the economic growth rate within an appropriate range in spite of multiple risks and challenges in 2019.
