Official: China's economy to grow at 10% this year
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-28 16:43
A senior official predicted China's economy would grow at around 10 percent
this year and the consumer price index would stay at two percent.
The economy would maintain its steady and fast growth the rest of the year
despite a slowdown of fixed assets investment and rising loans, said Xu Yifan,
deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Wednesday.
NBS statistics show the growth rate of fixed assets investment,a major
indicator of economic growth, dropped 5.9 percentage points over previous month
to 21.5 percent in August.
Chinese banks lent 177 billion yuan (22.4 billion U.S. dollars)on average per
month in July and August, half of the average monthly new loans in the first six
months.
The figures indicated the macro-economic control measures had taken effect
and China's economy had made a good start on the 11th Five-Year Program period
(2006-2010), said Xu.
China's economy grew at 10.2 percent last year and the growth rate was 10.9
percent in the first half of this year. The government has been making efforts
to cool it down.
Despite the signs of slowdown, Xu warned the government should stay alert to
possible overheating and over-fast growth of fixed assets
investment. (For more biz stories, please visit Industry Updates)
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