China should take measures to prevent export growth from slowing too much, hurting economic expansion, the official China Securities Journal reported, citing Yu Yongding, a former central bank adviser.

 

The government should boost domestic consumption to sustain growth and control the narrowing of the trade surplus "within a certain range," said Yu, a researcher at the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

 

(Shanghai Daily January 4, 2008)