7月16日,《Global Times》发布上海交通大学上海高级金融学院金融学教授、中国金融研究院副院长钱军的观点报道。钱军教授表示,中国经济不会硬着陆,且第三产业将成为经济发展的“火车头”。
China’s first half GDP up 6.7%
The performance of the Chinese economy in the first half of the year
was steady and in line with expectations, and China is confident of
achieving its main full-year development targets, Premier Li Keqiang
said on Friday.
"New economy is vibrant, new business forms are booming, and new growth
momentum is accumulating," Li said in a keynote speech at the 11th
Asia-Europe Meeting Summit in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
The comments came shortly after the release of China's key
macroeconomic data earlier in the day. Official statistics showed that
China's GDP expanded 6.7 percent year on year in the first half of 2016
to reach 34.06 trillion yuan ($5.08 trillion).
"The data shows that the Chinese economy will not head for a
hard landing, and there is a growing trend that the services industry
has become the locomotives for China's economy," Qian Jun, a professor
of finance at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, told the Global Times
on Friday.
He added that the figure is also good news for the global
economy, which faces uncertainties concerning the influence of Brexit
and the fragile recovering of the US economy.
China is confident of achieving the main development targets set for
this year and ensuring medium-high economic growth rates to take the
economy to medium-high levels of development, said Li.
Economic growth in the second quarter was slightly faster than
expected, holding steady from the first quarter and fueling hopes that
the economy has entered a period of relatively slower but steady growth,
the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Overall June activities are much stronger than expectation and China is
on track to achieve this year's growth target, Zhu Haibin, chief
economist of JP Morgan China, told the Global Times.
"It is a challenge to identify where growth will come from in the
coming months. The greatest concern is the ongoing slide in
private-sector investment," Tom Rafferty, an economist at the
London-based Economist Intelligence Unit, said in a note sent to the
Global Times on Friday.
However, Sheng Laiyun, spokesperson of the National Bureau of
Statistics, said China's economic stabilization is set to continue.
He elaborated that major indicators are operating in a reasonable zone
while supply-side structural reform and economic restructuring continue
to advance.