Premier Li Qiang has urged officials to pull out all the stops in a race to achieve China’s major goals laid out during the past week’s “two sessions” meetings, such as maintaining an economic growth rate of around 5 per cent.
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“We must refine measures and speed up their implementation, race against time amid various uncertainties, and work quickly and proactively,” Li said at a meeting of the State Council on Wednesday, a day after China’s top legislative and consultative bodies concluded their annual gathering.
All government agencies should “take the initiative to fulfil their responsibilities and take more positive actions to complete their tasks”, Li demanded, as Beijing outlined a series of policies to boost growth in the face of economic headwinds.
Though they played up their confidence in the future of the world’s second-largest economy, Chinese leaders also emphasised during the two sessions that challenges remain, including weak domestic demand and intensifying trade frictions with the United States.
Li demanded that officials “closely monitor changes in the situation and make good policy preparations” to ensure that they can be launched in a timely manner and yield results as soon as possible, according to a readout of Wednesday’s meeting reported by Xinhua.
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In his work report last week, Li emphasised that China’s growth target of around 5 per cent for 2025 underscores leadership’s resolve in meeting difficulties head-on and striving to deliver results.