Summary|Observers believe that the increase in growth expectations highlights China’s optimistic economic development prospects

Author:Randy Hahn
Release time:Jun 03, 2024 17:27 PM

Beijing, June 3: Recently, the International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for China's economic growth this year to 5%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the forecast in the "World Economic Outlook Report" released in April this year.

Overseas observers have said that international institutions have raised China's economic growth expectations, highlighting China's great economic development potential, sufficient resilience, and optimistic growth prospects. Many experts have emphasized that the stability and positive growth of China's economy is good for multinational companies' business, good for regional cooperation and development, and good for the recovery of the global economy.

On September 7, 2023, workers worked in the production workshop at the SAIC CP Company automobile factory in Chonburi, Thailand. Photo by reporter Wang Teng

"China always surprises everyone!" Michael Schumann, chairman of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade, said in an interview with reporters that in recent decades, there have always been media badmouthing the Chinese economy, claiming that the Chinese economy has There are risks of one kind or another, but China's economy continues to grow and has achieved gratifying results. Schumann said that the Chinese government has announced a number of measures to support economic growth this year, which has boosted market confidence and prompted international institutions such as the IMF to raise China's economic growth expectations.

Schumann said that the current world economy is facing challenges, and China's economy maintains stable and positive growth, which is beneficial to the world economy.

Recently, the Chengdu factory of the multinational enterprise Siemens, its first digital factory outside Germany, is carrying out the fourth phase of project construction. On the one hand, it will expand the production scale and achieve 100% localized production of related products. On the other hand, it will expand the R&D team to meet the needs of the Chinese market. Set out to carry out product innovation and strive to achieve "intelligent manufacturing in China" from the source.

Xiao Song, global executive vice president of Siemens, chairman, president and CEO of Siemens China, told reporters that the charm of the Chinese market lies not only in its size, but also in its speed, which forces companies to continuously generate new competitiveness and share more in the Chinese market. New opportunities. He said that China is not only an important market for Siemens in the application of industrial technology, but also the most innovative frontier market. As China focuses on developing "new quality productivity", Siemens will also strive to embrace changes in the Chinese market at a faster pace.

On January 31, in the Heihe area of ​​the China Free Trade Pilot Zone, workers at the Intelligent Warehousing and Logistics Center of the Heihe Cross-Border E-commerce Park sent packaged goods to the express sorting field via a conveyor belt. Photo by reporter Xie Jianfei

At the beginning of this year, Riyadi Supano, executive director of the Southeast Indonesia Institute for Strategic Studies, went to China for a visit and exchange. He was impressed by the high proportion of new energy vehicles on China's roads and the ubiquity of mobile payments. He said that the popularization of these applications requires a series of high-tech support, which reflects China's accelerated industrial transformation and entry into a new stage of development.

Suparno said that in recent years, Indonesia and China have achieved a series of win-win cooperation results, the most typical of which is the opening of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway. He said that for Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, the Chinese market has huge potential and broad prospects, and has long-lasting and strong attraction.

Talking about the achievements of China's economic development this year, Tuli McCulli, a senior researcher at the Bank of Finland's Emerging Economics Research Institute, said in a written interview with reporters that the growth of China's economy since the beginning of the year has been better than expected, marking a good start for the year. head, helping to enhance the confidence of consumers and businesses.

José Ricardo Luz Jr., CEO of the Brazilian Business Leaders Organization in China, said that the IMF's increase in China's economic growth forecast reflects China's success in promoting the development of "new productive forces", especially the technological innovation that has brought China The economy continues to bring vitality. He emphasized that national economic growth must rely on high technology, high efficiency, and high quality. China's development philosophy has effectively promoted economic growth.

Joelson Sampaio, an economics scholar at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil, also said that China's economic activities continue to improve, and the government has actively introduced new measures to promote stable economic growth, which has had a positive impact.


Summary|Observers believe that the increase in growth expectations highlights China’s optimistic economic development prospects
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