Hitting inflation target is key to China’s other economic goals, adviser says
South China Morning Post
by Xinyi Wu,Sylvia MaMarch 6, 2026
Achieving this year’s inflation target would be one of China’s top economic tasks, a prominent economist and government adviser said, as it was pivotal to accomplishing other government priorities such as boosting consumption, raising incomes and achieving the required headline growth figures.
“The inflation target corresponds to a state of relative equilibrium between supply and demand,” Zhang Bin, deputy director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social...
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Originally published on South China Morning Post on 3/6/2026