{"id":51803,"date":"2019-11-24T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51803"},"modified":"2019-11-24T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:46:55","slug":"chinese-premier-meets-imf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51803","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Premier meets IMF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIJING, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, met with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, and pledged further opening up of the country&#8217;s financial sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Li said, China and leaders of major international economic institutions sent strong signals of jointly safeguarding multi-lateralism and free trade, tackling economic downward pressure and enhancing international cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s current economic operation is generally stable but faces downward pressure, Li said. &#8220;China will further its reform and opening-up and stimulate the market&#8217;s vitality to counter the downward pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that financial opening-up is a key area in China&#8217;s further opening-up, Li said, the country will continue to expand opening-up in the fields of banking, insurance and securities, and work towards allowing the establishment of wholly foreign-owned banks, which are granted full-service license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China will maintain basic stability of the exchange rate of its currency RMB, at a reasonable and balanced level, and continue to advance market-oriented RMB exchange rate reform, said Li, adding that, the country will not engage in competitive devaluation of the RMB exchange rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgieva said, under the backdrop of global economic slowdown and increasing uncertainties, the IMF applauds China&#8217;s economic policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the Chinese government has adopted a positive fiscal policy, carried out taxes and fees cut, implemented prudent monetary policy and supply-side structural reform, which are conducive to raise China&#8217;s medium- and long-term competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF stands ready to work with China, to enhance cooperation in all fields and jointly promote sustained development of global economy, Georgieva said.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, met with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, and pledged further opening up of the country&#8217;s financial sector. Li said, China and leaders of major international economic institutions sent strong signals of jointly safeguarding multi-lateralism and free trade, tackling economic downward pressure and enhancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}