March 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The newly appointed Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang, warned on Monday about the economic uncertainties that could affect the Asian giant during his new term, marked by the consequences of three years of pandemic.
Li, who has held his first press conference after the closing of the National People’s Congress, has indicated what are the main objectives of the policy that the Government is going to carry out.
“Stabilizing economic growth is a difficult task, not only for China, but for all countries in the world,” said the Chinese premier.
In this sense, Li has warned that in order to reach the objective of 5 percent growth it will be necessary to “redouble efforts”, as reported by the CGTN chain.
Likewise, he has assured that China “will only open up more to the world” to “welcome investment from all over the world” because the opening has allowed the country to develop. “Regardless of external changes, we will unswervingly follow our ‘opening up’ policy,” she stressed.
However, he has maintained that the government’s ‘Zero COVID’ measures, which involved strict measures for the Chinese population for almost three years, have been “well conceived”, since they have given the country time to develop vaccines and medicines.
“For more than three years, under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Chinese people have united in the fight against COVID-19, and now we have won an important and decisive victory against the disease,” he said, stressing that in less than two months the country achieved a “smooth transition”.
Regarding Beijing’s relationship with Washington, the head of government has underlined the benefits of trade relations between the two nations, assuring that it is a dependent relationship and that there are many areas in which they can work together.
“The repression does not benefit either party,” Li said, referring to geopolitical tensions between the two world powers, the newspaper ‘South China Morning Post’ reported.
On the other hand, regarding relations with Taiwan, he has indicated that Beijing will promote economic and cultural cooperation across the Strait on the principle of one China.
