Chinese President Xi Jinping enters his car after a visit at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris
Chinese President Xi Jinping enters his car after his visit to the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on March 26, 2019.
  • China can still manage to hit its target GDP growth rate if it boosts fiscal stimulus, Yu Yongding wrote in Project Syndicate.
  • The former PBOC advisor said that deflation should help the country inject support without fueling inflation.
  • The country needs to grow infrastructure investment as consumption growth slows.

Although China looks dead-set on another year of economic distress, its prospects are brighter than they seem, a former advisor to the People's Bank of China wrote.