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Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... over "peak growth- peak inflation" were further stoke by developments in China. The State Council, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, released a statement hinting at a reduction in the country's required reserve ratio (RRR). "Given the impact of higher ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... to prevent a repeat of last year's protests. At the National People's Congress (NPC) held on May 22, Premier Li Keqiang announced its intent to improve national security in Hong Kong (if it sounds familiar, it is, for this is the same "excuse" ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... investment. Signaled looser liquidity stance by pointing to further RRR cuts for smaller banks." Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced these measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5 simultaneous with his revelation ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... Signaled looser liquidity stance by pointing to further RRR cuts for smaller banks," it said. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced the measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5, simultaneous with his revelation of ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in early March last year, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in March last year, Li set the 2017 ...

China slows to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
Li gets what Li likes. A day after the executive meeting of China's State Council chaired by Premier Li Keqiang resolved to continue supply-side structural reforms aimed at "reining in excessive production capacity, reducing corporate costs and improving ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Li starts to get what he likes... and then some. Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang's 6.5% growth target for this year is tracking well (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... determination towards "economic and social stability". This is the overriding message delivered by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) earlier this month. In his address ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... China announced over the weekend it will expand a relending trial to nine more cities and provinces, while Premier Li Keqiang said the government will increase fiscal support for shantytown redevelopment". Wonder where all these rational printed insights ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... of GDP for 2015, up from last year's target of 2.1 percent." So too about China's debt. According to Prime Minister Li Keqiang, "Government debt is at a relatively low level and concerns over China's government debt risks are unnecessary." "Central government ...
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