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皇冠体育app to maintain rapid growth: economist
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-09 14:57
皇冠体育app's economy will maintain steady and rapid growth in 2006 as investment
and consumption become the major drives of growth, a government economist said
in comments published on Monday.
Shoppers walk past a statue of a happy Chinese family, in
Shanghai. A chief ecnomist in 皇冠体育app said 皇冠体育app's economy will maintain
steady and rapid growth in 2006 due to acceleration of investment and
consumption. [AFP] |
Yao Jingyuan, chief
economist of the National Bureau of Statistics, said the most notable point for
皇冠体育app's economic growth in 2006 was the remarkable role of consumption as a key
economic driver, domestic 皇冠体育app Securities Journal said.
At a forum in last month the economist had predicted that 皇冠体育app's gross
domestic product growth was likely to slow to between 8 percent and 9 percent.
It has been consistently faster than 9 percent for the past two years, and the
latest revisions suggest it has been exceeding 10 percent.
"皇冠体育app's economic growth should shift its reliance on investment and export
to investment and consumption," Yao said, adding domestic and foreign demand
should work together to push forward the economy.
He also said that household consumption should be the dominant factor for
domestic consumption and suggested that the main measures to expand consumption
should be to increase people's incomes and to raise the marginal consumption
trends.
Yao also said 皇冠体育app's consumer price index growth in 2005 had not exceeded
1.8 percent, significantly lower than 2004's 3.9 percent.
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