China economy shows positive signs, with uncertainties (2)

As the government adopted a series of fiscal and monetary measures and accelerated the approvals of investment projects to spur the slowing economy, the domestic economy has stabilized since September with better indicators, Zhou said.

He said it's hard to judge how the global financial crisis will continue to affect the Chinese economy, because the spreading of the European debt crisis and the so-called "fiscal cliff" problem in the United States have increased uncertainties of the world economy.

"We need to monitor the effect on our economy of the monetary easing policies launched recently by the United States and the European Union," he said.

China is likely to maintain the policy continuity "to some extent" in 2013, but will leave "ample room" to make the policy targeted and flexible.

The CPC Central Committee will set the tone for the economy at an economic work conference scheduled to convene at the end of this year.

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