Meeting growth target 'no problem'

China not only will easily meet its economic growth target of around 6.5 percent this year, it may even beat it, Ning Jizhe, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Tuesday in Beijing.

"China will not have any problem at all meeting its growth target," he said at a news conference while speaking about the country's economic achievements since 2013. "The Chinese economy's stabilizing and improving trend remains unchanged and the whole-year results could be even better (than the target)."

Ning commented ahead of the bureau's release of third-quarter GDP data on Oct 19. Economists widely expect growth to remain stable, though it may soften a little in the third and fourth quarters.