China will achieve GDP target despite challenges - Reuters

As reported by Reuters, Chinese press agency Xinhua has stated that China will be able to overcome current trade difficulties with the US and still attain their growth targets.

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"We must do a good job in stabilizing employment, finance, foreign trade and investment, and expectations," Xinhua said, citing a statement released after a meeting of ruling Communist Party's Politburo.

China's economy faces some new problems and new challenges, including "significant changes in the external environment", Xinhua cited the Politburo meeting - chaired by President Xi Jinping - as saying."We must seize the main contradictions and take targeted measures to solve them," it said."