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Note: The nation can achieve its GDP growth target of "around 7 percent" this year without any risk of asystemic financial crisis, said members of the country's top political advisory body on Friday.
 The nation can achieve its GDP growth target of "around 7 percentthis year without any risk of asystemic financial crisissaid members of the country's top political advisory body on Friday.

With economic expansion having moderated to a "new normalpacepotential GDP growth willstill be about 8 percent this year and in the next 20 yearssaid Justin Yifu Linformer chiefeconomist and senior vice-president of the World Bank.

His comments came during a news conference at the Third Session of the 12th NationalCommittee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

China still has huge development potential in many industriessuch as equipment manufacturing,e-commerceInternet financealternative energy and environmental protectionProductivityshould be continually improved by relying on technological innovation and industrial upgradinghesaid.

The government reduced the 2015 GDP growth target to "around 7 percentfrom "around 7.5percentin the past three yearsSlower growth will provide more room for structural adjustmentswhile maintaining a bottom line to ensure a stable labor marketaccording to the governmentwork report.

Further moderation of economic growth will add pressure on commercial bankslending activity,because more enterprises may face lower profits and even possible bankruptcyBut it isunreasonable to say that China's banking sector will collapsesaid Yang Kaishengformerpresident of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd.

"Downward pressure will increase in 2015 and commercial banksability to digest bad loans isimportant," said Yang.

Domestic banksnonperforming loan ratio is relatively low compared with the world's largestbankshe said.

SeparatelyPeople's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Friday that this year'sbroad money supply growth target will be more flexibleaiming to better support the realeconomy.

"M2 is an important indicator of macroeconomic policybut it is not necessary to fix it at a certainlevel," said Zhou. "It is more significant to set targets for new jobsGDP growth and inflation tomonitor the development," he said.

Although this year's M2 growth target was cut to 12 percent from 13 percentconsistent with alower nominal GDP growth targetthe government work report said that the actual outcome couldbe highersuggesting that 12 percent may be better considered as a lower boundary.

The report also called for the use of both price and quantitative monetary instruments to helplower financing costs in the economy.

 
 
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