Beijing Officials Play Down Economic Woes At Davos
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2019-01-22 HKT 20:55
The slowdown in Chinese growth has become the latest looming cloud over the global economy, but at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the advice from Beijing was not to worry.
"China is slowing down but it's not going to be a disaster," said Fang Xinghai, vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a key government watchdog.
Fang's affirmation of the economy, and the deep worries of outsiders, came just days after the government reported that the mainland grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in 2018.
At 6.6 percent growth, the state of the economy became a world concern, a sentiment not helped by the festering trade war with the US that has destabilised world markets.
Premier Li Keqiang vowed the government would not let the economy "fall off a cliff", using words that hinted that a crisis may not be far off.
But China is simply different, said Fang on a Davos panel that was supposed to survey the global economy, but got bogged down on discussing the troubled Asian powerhouse.
"China has been able to avoid financial crisis in the last 40 years. We have a very top down approach to financial risk management," he said.
"If there is any risk accumulated in the system, the government will step in and order the risk to be reduced," he said. (AFP)
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