China on track for more growth, Vice-President Wang Qishan tells worried world elite in Davos as he rebukes US 'bullying'
2019-01-24 10:19:30 source:South China Morning Post
January 24, 2019
Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan sought to reassure the world’s business and political elite about China’s economy at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, while also warning other countries against dominating future technologies and making what appeared to be a thinly veiled criticism of the Trump administration’s “bullying” tactics.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Wednesday, Wang said China’s economic growth rate – which last year was 6.6 per cent, the lowest since 1990 – was “not low at all”.
“One thing that is certain is that China’s growth will continue and be sustainable,” he said, after an introduction by Klaus Schwab, the forum’s executive chairman.
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