China’s U.N. envoy says Beijing assured it’s going to meet financial targets regardless of coronavirus

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China’s U.N. envoy says Beijing assured it’s going to meet financial targets regardless of coronavirus

By Michelle Nichols


By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS, March 2 (Reuters)China’s U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, stated on Monday that whereas the coronavirus outbreak has had a “unfavorable impression” on the nation’s financial system, Beijing was working to revitalize and was assured it might attain its financial targets for 2020.

“Undoubtedly the epidemic, the coronavirus, has brought about a unfavorable impression on the Chinese language financial system,” Zhang advised a information convention on the United Nations to mark China’s presidency of the Safety Council for March.

“However in the meantime due to the sturdy resilience, due to the large home consumption and the home market and due to the strong basis of the Chinese language financial system, we’re very a lot assured that we’re in a position to understand the targets we’ve got set for this yr, the financial targets, the social targets,” Zhang stated.

Regardless of that optimism, China faces an enormous problem in getting its financial system again on monitor after the extended shutdown attributable to the outbreak.



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