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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
China on track for 2022 GDP target despite Covid shock: Chinese economists

Global Economy

Reuters
20 April, 2022, 03:10 pm
Last modified: 20 April, 2022, 03:17 pm

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China on track for 2022 GDP target despite Covid shock: Chinese economists

Reuters
20 April, 2022, 03:10 pm
Last modified: 20 April, 2022, 03:17 pm
FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians wearing face masks ride an escalator near an overpass with an electronic board showing the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, at Lujiazui financial district, in Shanghai, China March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians wearing face masks ride an escalator near an overpass with an electronic board showing the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, at Lujiazui financial district, in Shanghai, China March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

China remains on track to reach its 2022 growth target of around 5.5% as it has ample stimulus space, government economists said on Wednesday, despite a resurgence in Covid-19 cases that has prompted private analysts to slash their forecasts.

"The target is achievable despite the pandemic," Zhang Yuyan, head of Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a top government think tank, said at the annual Boao Forum for Asia.

"There is still room for cutting interest rates and reserve requirement ratios (RRR), and there is room for a more proactive fiscal policy," he told reporters at the forum, held in the southern province of Hainan.

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Zhang said China's inflation outlook remains benign, which could give the central bank more room to ease policy.

Xiong Aizhong, a second economist at the CASS, also said China has ample policy space to help it achieve the target.

"Compared with developed economies, our policy room is relatively big as our inflation is relatively low and debt burdens are relatively low," he said.

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund and several foreign banks have downgraded their China growth forecasts, as the authorities scramble to control the Covid-19 resurgence, mainly in the financial hub of Shanghai, amid the Ukraine crisis.

The IMF on Tuesday cut its forecast for China's growth to 4.4% in 2022 from 4.8% it prjected in January.

DBS has revised down its 2022 China growth forecast to 4.8% from 5.3% previously, while Barclays has cut its outlook to 4.3% from 4.5%.

"Beijing's GDP growth target of around 5.5% this year is becoming increasingly challenging, and we now see notable downside risks to our annual GDP growth forecast of 4.3%," economists at Nomura said in a note.

In contrast to most major economies that have started to tighten monetary policy to combat inflation, China has stepped up easing to cushion the slowdown.

Zhang cautioned that a policy divergence between China and the United States could fuel capital outflows from the country.

On Tuesday, China's central bank surprisingly kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged, even after it recently cut the amount of cash that banks must set aside as reserves.

Sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia could prod some countries to embrace the yuan in trade settlements and foreign currency reserves, and China should make the yuan more flexible and convertible, Zhang said.

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