Li released court statistics that identified 112 cases of rat trading and securities and futures market manipulation over the past four years, which showed a rapid rise in the number of rat trading cases.
Li stressed that China is now at a crucial stage of updating its economic structure and shifting its economic drivers.
Li explained that this is because many workers have reached retirement age in the elder-care sector. “Amid this worsening pandemic, their grown-up sons and daughters do not allow their caregiver mothers to go to work anymore, fearing they would catch the virus and transmit it to the grandchildren.” Li, who is also a member of the Elderly Commission, which advises on elderly-related policies, said this is why all workers want to take the tests as soon as possible. The testing will provide proof that they are healthy and can continue working.
Li received Orban during the latter's two official visits to China, in Feb 2014 and May of this year. The two countries' bilateral relations were upgraded to a comprehensive strategic partnership during the visit in May, when Orban attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
Li said the central government has rolled out effective macro policies to contain the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely and decisive manner, and the outcomes have beaten expectations.
Li said it has been the collective will of nearly 3,000 NPC deputies and the common wish of all Chinese people to unanimously elect Xi Jinping as president of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission.
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Li, the minister, said 2018 was a year with marked progress in air pollution control.
Like many other economists, Roach also highlighted China's significant role in maintaining world economic stability.
Lian Ping, chief economist of Bank of Communications, predicted on Wednesday that China's second-quarter year-on-year GDP growth may stand at 6.8 percent and gradually ease to 6.7 percent and 6.6 percent in the third and fourth quarter, respectively.
Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, was more conservative about the industry.