CRI听力:Expert's View on China's Q1 Economic Growth Outlook

A member of China's central bank advisory committee is projecting the country's economic growth will remain subdued through the first quarter of this year.

Huang Yiping, Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, has made the suggestion at a seminar on economic policy and reform in Beijing.

The suggestion follows and earlier prediction by the National Academy of Economic Strategy, a government think-tank, that China's GDP growth in the first quarter would grow by around 6.7 percent through the first 3-months of this year.

This would be a slight slowdown from the 6.8-percent expansion seen through the final quarter of last year.

The target for Chinese economic growth has been set at 6.5 to 7 percent this year.

For more on China's economic growth prospects, CRI's Bob Jones spoke earlier with John Ross, senior fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.