Ex-Pakistan PM confident of initiative

Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister of Pakistan and an expert on global finance, shared his views with China Daily's Wang Yiqing on the future of the Chinese economy and Sino-Pakistani cooperation in the Belt and Road Initiative. Following are excerpts from the interview:

What's your opinion on the Chinese economy's future?

First, we have to analyze an economy over a certain period. No economy can grow at one rate forever. The Chinese economy, as I see it, is experiencing a period of consolidation. I'm not concerned about the growth rate coming down, because the Chinese economy's basis is much bigger.