Xi at G20: World needs new sources of economic growth
Date
11/16/2015 11:10:07 PM
(MENAFN- Asia Times) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands prior to a dinner in Antalya Turkey
Xi said that although the global financial crisis was over the world had experienced a very weak economic recovery and more needed to be done to ensure a new age of global prosperity. He said progress to reform global economic governance had been slow and the world needed to work together to achieve international economic cooperation and development Xinhua reported.
The leaders of the world’s largest economies said in a statement on Monday that they remained committed to the goal of lifting their collective output by a further 2 percent by 2018 even though growth remains uneven and weaker than expected globally.
Xi told the G20 summit on Sunday that China was able to keep up medium to high economic growth and expects this year’s growth to be around 7 percent which would nevertheless be the weakest in a quarter of a century.
The world’s second-largest economy grew 6.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier the weakest pace since the global financial crisis hurt partly by cooling investment. That led the central bank to cut interest rates for the sixth time in nearly a year. Read more
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