China can meet growth target – NBS spokesman

BEIJING: China has conditions to achieve its full-year growth target of around 5 percent for 2024 via enhanced efforts, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.

Although the environment for economic development remains complex and grave, the fundamentals of the Chinese economy have continued to improve, and the positive factors driving economic recovery are accumulating and strengthening, NBS spokesman Liu Aihua told a press conference concerning the country’s economic performance in the first two months of 2024.