IMF lifts China growth forecast again on reform progress

Beijing

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its annual growth forecast for China again, stressing that the world's second-largest economy should move faster on structural reform.

In its conclusion to a mission in China during the first two weeks in June, the IMF forecast China will grow 6.7 per cent this year and 6.4 per cent from 2018 to 2020.