Chinese decision makers have gathered in Beijing over the weekend to determine the country´s economic policies for 2010. The annual Central Economic Work Conference is held at the end of every year.
Launched in November last year, a combination of fiscal and monetary polices, funded by unprecendented loans has made the 8 percent growth rate not just a target but a very real possibility.
I: Excessive production capacity II: Over-rapid development of industries with high energy and resource consumption
China would continue to adopt the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year and endeavor to improve the economic growth quality, according to the Central Economic Work Conference Monday.
China´s banking regulator is requiring the banking sector to boost credit structures and improve loan quality in 2010. It´s aiming to speed up economic restructuring and growth transformation.
The Chinese government pledged Monday to push forward the transformation of economic development pattern next year while maintaining a stable and comparatively fast economic growth.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission will further improve supervision and step up efforts to maintain the stability of the capital market in 2010.
The Chinese government will push recovery of its exports and promote balanced international trade as one of its major tasks next year, the country´s senior policymakers agreed at the annual key economic conference on Monday.
China´s forex regulator will further improve management of the country´s 2.3 trillion US dollars in reserves to ensure its safety, liquidity, and profitability next year.
China´s economy should reach its target growth rate of 8 percent this year, and go on to do even better next year with a top think tank predicting a 9 percent expansion. The China Academy of Social Sciences has just released its annual Blue Book of the economy.
China´s economic growth is projected to reach 8.8 percent in 2010, but will still fall short of pace according to pre-economic crisis levels, a new UN economic report said here on Wednesday.
The Central Economic Work conference seems to have fired up confidence in those investing in equities. With officials pledging little fundamental change to fiscal and monetary policies, many believe stocks are still a lucrative option.
"The conference is very important. There´s a lot of expectations of China. At the same time, China has done tremendously well with the stimulus program meeting the targets this year..."