Quotable

"China will not have any problem at all meeting its growth target. The Chinese economy's stabilizing and improving trend remains unchanged, and the whole-year results could be even better (than the target)."

NING JIZHE, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, speaking on Oct 10 at a news conference in Beijing about the country's economic achievements since 2013.

"The country has attached unprecedented importance to fighting poverty. President Xi Jinping has visited all the 14 contiguous poverty-stricken areas, and more than 30 of his 50 or so investigation visits in the country were relevant to poverty relief."

LIU YONGFU, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, speaking at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office on Oct 10.

"Strengthened supervision over local governments' financing for PPP projects, which began earlier this year, marks a new starting point (in PPP management)."

HAN ZHIFENG, deputy head of the Fixed-Asset Investment Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, remarking on public-private partnership projects.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 10/13/2017 page2)