Pakistani expert: China’s economic upturn will help the world’s economic recovery

　　Xinhua News Agency, Islamabad, December 21 (Reporter Liu Tian) Shakiel Lamai, director of the China Studies Center of the Pakistan Institute of Sustainable Development Policy, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters that the expansion of domestic demand and the comprehensive promotion of reform and opening up will continue to be promoted. China's economy is developing well, helping the recovery of the world economy.

　　Lamai said that the Central Economic Work Conference's proposal to insist on expanding domestic demand will not only help boost China's domestic consumption, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic and international double cycles as the main body, but also help to form a more purchasing power. In the domestic market, expanding China's imports from the world allows other countries to benefit from China's development.

　　He said that the comprehensive promotion of reform and opening up highlights China and other countries' determination to share the dividends of economic development.

　　The Central Economic Work Conference put strengthening the national strategic scientific and technological strength as the top priority of next year's key tasks, which impressed Lamai.

"China has paid great attention to technological innovation in recent years and has achieved important results in quantum computers, artificial intelligence, 5G and other fields."

　　Lamai believes that the booming digital economy is one of the achievements of China's encouragement of technological innovation.

He said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, China's digital economy showed extraordinary power, and e-commerce and logistics companies hardly stagnated, showing strong resilience and vitality to help China's economy get rid of the impact of the epidemic.

　　Lamai is confident of China's economic prospects next year.

"Even in the context of the severe impact of the epidemic and the deep recession of the global economy, China has achieved positive economic growth. There are reasons to believe that China can completely complete its own development plans in the future."