China News Agency, Beijing, February 5 (Reporter Wang Enbo) Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China" recently that China's development is actually a boon to the world economy.
"Our development will bring new impetus to the world economy, rather than threats and challenges."
Under the epidemic, China's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 2.3% in 2020, and the total economic volume will exceed the 100 trillion yuan mark. It is expected that China will become the only major economy in the world that achieved positive economic growth last year.
Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "China Focus Face to Face".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Jiang Qiming
Sheng Laiyun pointed out that, first of all, the Chinese economy took the lead in resuming work and production, and achieved a stable recovery, which has strengthened the confidence of the people of all countries in the fight against the epidemic and the confidence of promoting their own economic recovery.
China has accumulated some experience in these two areas, which has provided the people of the world with the experience of resuming work and production and promoting economic recovery under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.
Second, China's economy has taken the lead in recovering and recovering steadily, and has made great contributions to the development of the world economy and the fight against the epidemic.
Since the second quarter of last year, China has exported a large number of anti-epidemic materials to various countries to meet domestic needs while meeting the needs of people around the world.
According to China Customs data, China exported 224.2 billion masks last year.
If China’s population is excluded, it is roughly equivalent to 40 people per person in other countries in the world.
In addition, China has played an important leading role in delaying and reducing the world economic recession and the economic decline of some other countries.
"In particular, China's imports have played a very important stabilizing effect on the economies of some countries." Sheng Laiyun said that in 2020, China's imports to ASEAN exceeded US$300 billion for the first time, reaching US$300.9 billion, an increase of US$18 billion from 2019.
This shows to a certain extent that China's demand has boosted its exports and helped its economic stability and recovery.
(Finish)