Wen Jiabao: Cautiously Grasp The Timing And Rhythm Of Stimulus Exit

China News Agency, Brussels, October, 5, Chinese Premier attending the eighth Asia Europe summit in Brussels

Wen Jiabao attended the eighth Asia Europe summit held in Brussels on 4 and 5, and addressed the topic of improving China's global financial and economic governance, promoting sustainable development and global issues.

Wen Jiabao said that the overall recovery of the world economy is generally slow, but there is still much uncertainty.

All countries should continue to consolidate the momentum of economic recovery as a priority policy objective, maintain a reasonable macroeconomic policy, and prudently and safely grasp the timing and pace of economic stimulus exit.

ASEM members should strengthen cooperation and strive to improve global financial and economic governance, eliminate the root causes of the international financial and economic crisis, and promote the strong, sustainable and balanced growth of the global economy.

China will continue to support European countries affected by the sovereign debt crisis to overcome difficulties.

Wen Jiabao stressed that the Chinese government has always attached great importance to the issue of climate change.

In the face of extremely difficult international financial crisis, through painstaking efforts, we are expected to basically achieve the expected target of reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP this year.

China is willing to continue to provide support within the framework of South South cooperation and bilateral cooperation for other developing countries to cope with climate change. It will continue to play an active and constructive role in promoting the comprehensive, balanced and binding outcome of the Cancun conference.

Wen Jiabao pointed out that current energy and food security, natural disasters, terrorism, piracy attacks and other global problems have occurred frequently, and have posed severe challenges to the economic development and social stability in Asia and Europe.

Among them, food security is an urgent task that needs to be solved at present. All countries should work together to cope with it.

Therefore, we must do everything possible to raise the level of grain production. This is the key to solving the problem of food security. We must vigorously strengthen the coordination of agricultural policies, constantly improve the agricultural trade environment, actively promote the exchange and cooperation of agricultural science and technology, strive to improve the ability of disaster prevention and disaster resistance, and strengthen food aid to developing countries lacking grain.