China Economists Call for Easing of Covid Curbs to Boost Growth
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Six prominent Chinese economists including former central bank adviser Huang Yiping and fellow Peking University professor Yao Yang called for a relaxing of the country’s Covid rules to boost economic growth.
The resumption of economic activities should be the country’s top priority in the near term, the group said in an report published on the WeChat account of signatory Ren Zeping, former chief economist at Soochow Securities, on Saturday. Activities at public venues should resume because economic growth is fundamental to solving the nation’s problems, including to able to withstand external pressures from country’s such as the US and to help with domestic economic restructuring, according to the report.