Maintaining growth 'challenging'

As the world is concentrating on the effect of rescue plans in developed economies, China is pondering how to maintain its stable economic growth, with interest rate cuts expected to continue, analysts said.

But economists are divided on how soon the interest rate adjustment will come.

The 3rd Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which concluded on Sunday, said the economy has remained sound, but the authorities would take prudent and flexible policies to keep the economy on the right track. To that end, the meeting stressed the role of stimulating domestic demand.