President of the United Nations General Assembly Vuk Jeremic said Friday that the Chinese economy is one of the strongest performers worldwide and offers optimism to the world economy.
Jeremic, president of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, made the comments in a joint interview with Chinese media in Beijing.
He said one of the most significant reference points to the world economy is China's economic situation. If China is going in the right direction, the rest of the world will be going in a good direction economically. If China is having difficulties, everybody is going to have difficulties.
In the first half of the year, China's economic growth slowed to 7.6 percent.
"The growth, which some people question that whether this is good enough or strong enough... I don't really think that there are too many countries in the world that can have 7.6-percent growth, a very stable one," he said.
"I understand that of the 7.6-percent growth rate, 7.5 percent can be attributed to domestic demand, so we are talking about really 'solid' growth, perhaps not 10 percent like China used to have," he added.
Jeremic praised China for showing the strength and resilience in the face of international challenges.
Source: Xinhua
Source: Xinhua
