China aims for stability

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From the AFR:

China will use infrastructure spending, private sector investment and business tax cuts to keep the economy growing around 6.5 per cent “or higher” this year as Premier Li Keqiang stressed in a keynote speech that stability was the government’s “overriding” priority ahead of November’s leadership reshuffle.

In his work report to the country’s annual session of parliament on Sunday, Mr Li slightly downgraded the country’s growth and money supply targets, signalling the government would do more to tackle problems such as high debt levels and industrial overcapacity.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.