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Speaker 2: Jill Diesis who joins us Bloomberg China Eco Gov editor

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Speaker 2: for the big meetings this week, the two sessions. So

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Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about this generally, Jill, let me

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Speaker 2: ask you something a little more specific here.

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Speaker 3: Can we expect a.

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Speaker 2: Kind of doubling down on the commitment from Chinese policymakers

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Speaker 2: to become self sufficient in some key areas like AI

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Speaker 2: and semiconductors and high tech?

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, Brian. I think the one thing to keep

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Speaker 4: in mind with this National People's Congress that we're gearing

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Speaker 4: up for here is that a lot of these policy

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Speaker 4: positions were likely charted out in December when key leaders

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Speaker 4: met and kind of puddled together and laid out what

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Speaker 4: the big priorities would be for twenty twenty four. We

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Speaker 4: know that you know economic sustainability is certainly a major

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Speaker 4: target for this year. We know that they really really

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Speaker 4: want to play some big emphasis on growth, but a

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Speaker 4: lot of those you know, mid to long term goals

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Speaker 4: for China also rely on becoming more self sufficient, as

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Speaker 4: you said, in particular areas like technology. We've seen, you know,

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Speaker 4: over the last couple of years, a bigger push toward

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Speaker 4: investments in electric vehicles, for example, or renewable energies, advanced technologies,

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Speaker 4: those kinds of things. So I imagine that is going

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Speaker 4: to continue to play a role in top policymakers thinking

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Speaker 4: for this year. Of course that the big balance, the

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Speaker 4: tricky balance here for them, is going to be balancing

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Speaker 4: those priorities against this need to also make sure that

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Speaker 4: economic growth is sustainable for the course of the year.

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Speaker 1: So, Jill, aside from espousing a lot of nationalism, which

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Speaker 1: would be expected, I'm wondering whether our leadership is going

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Speaker 1: to make any effort to be empathic, to say to

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Speaker 1: the population overall, hey, we know that it's been challenging.

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Speaker 1: We know that you're having a tough time believing in

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Maybe maybe that's an extreme example, but

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Speaker 1: at least to kind of mirror the reality a little

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Speaker 1: bit to saying, yeah, things are tough, we're on the case.

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Speaker 4: Well, Doug, I think that at this point it would

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Speaker 4: actually be a bit of a surprise if they go

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Speaker 4: into a ton of details about economic challenges to say

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Speaker 4: the least. But yeah, look, I think that you know,

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Speaker 4: we've seen some measures. I mean, you know how this

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Speaker 4: you know, kind of plays out in actions that they take.

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Speaker 4: For example, when we think back to just you know,

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Speaker 4: this big multi trillion dollars doc route that we've been

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Speaker 4: months or so, and then a lot of the conversations

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Speaker 4: stock markets, was you know, this big giant change at

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Speaker 4: talking about the need to help. So I'd imagine that

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Speaker 2: I was chuckling as well, because you know, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to think of Hijin Ping as an empathetic leader, you know,

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Speaker 2: walking walking through the neighborhoods. You know, I feel your pain.

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Speaker 2: I'm here to help. And Bill Clinton but but you know, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: But but actually I think Doug was spot on. I

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Speaker 2: think in some way that's what investors are hoping for,

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Speaker 4: I look bright and I think that I think that

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Speaker 4: That could be something that comes up at this NPC.

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Speaker 4: We've seen them also tap into different forms of funding.

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Speaker 4: bit more investment for the sectors. So through the through

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Speaker 4: I'm just not really sure that we're going to see

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so chill when it comes to government spending, do

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Speaker 1: we know what we're likely to hear in terms of

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Speaker 1: a deficit, you know, the amount of GDP that would

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Speaker 4: Yes, this is a really interesting one, Doug, and I

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Speaker 4: think that probably one of the things that I'm most

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Speaker 4: keen to look out for at the NPC this time around.

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Speaker 4: So usually the government or historically the government hasn't really

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Speaker 4: liked to see that fiscal deficit ratio so depth the

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Speaker 4: sovereign debt sort of helped with an infrastructure projects. Now,

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Speaker 4: thinking that at this point, for the NPC, we might

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Speaker 4: you know, maybe we'll we'll be willing to bend the

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Speaker 4: So I think that that's that that's a really good

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Speaker 4: one to look out for.

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Speaker 3: I'll throw you a little bit of a curve ball. Demographics.

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Speaker 2: Uh, is there a chance that we might see something

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Speaker 2: along the lines of incentivizing young couples to have more children?

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, that's an interesting one. Yeah, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: I think that, you know, certainly, there's been a lot

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Speaker 4: of challenges to uh, you know, population growth within China.

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Speaker 4: We you know, obviously saw indias or past China's the

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Speaker 4: of concerns about falling birth rates and the fact that

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Speaker 4: you know, the removal of one child policies several years ago,

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Speaker 4: and some other incentives haven't really done much to move

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Speaker 4: the needle. I'm not I wonder whether that would actually

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Speaker 4: what we have seen in the past from China is,

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Speaker 4: you know, some more iterative policies announced on sort of

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Speaker 4: an ad hoc basis. I think last year, maybe the

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Speaker 4: not sure whether that's going to come out of the MPC,

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Speaker 1: Have family for formation and the rest very quickly. Jill

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds, what about military spending.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that that's another one to look back for.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, national security is top of mind also.

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Speaker 4: I mean there's many things that are top of mind.

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Speaker 4: I feel for the Chinese government, but we've seen under

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Speaker 3: Jill, Thank you, Jill.

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Speaker 2: Lisa Sloomberg, China ECOGOV editor, joining us in our studios now,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberry Energy and Commodities Editor.

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Speaker 2: Ben. So, once again we see a little bit of

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Speaker 3: This is yet another one.

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Speaker 2: There's something like three hundred and sixty million barrels of

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Speaker 2: that China threw through its subsidiary Unipac America that Sinopek

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Speaker 5: I think you're right, Brian, it's more symbolic. It's politics

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Speaker 5: at play here, point scoring if you like. You know,

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Speaker 5: the White House pointed out that by law, the Energy

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Speaker 5: you've had during the Trump administration, they sold barrels to

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Speaker 5: huge release in twenty twenty two by the Biden administration

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Speaker 5: it's not an actual They're not trying to sell barrels

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Speaker 5: It's near a forty year low, So I think you

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Speaker 5: hit the nail on the head early more early on.

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Speaker 5: It is symbolic. It's politics a play in the meantime.

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Speaker 1: When I think of China demand, I think of places

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Speaker 1: Chinese system. Are those sources still intact?

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Speaker 5: Most certainly, China is a very opportunistic buyer, and they

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Speaker 5: look for the cheapest barrels, and for those countries like

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Speaker 5: There is a little bit at play at the moment

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Speaker 5: that Russian barrels are getting a little bit cheaper than

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Speaker 5: Ananium barrel, so there's almost a sort of head to

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Speaker 5: barrels even cheaper from both those those out there. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I know, if you want to sell barrels and you're

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Speaker 2: So I think I mentioned the NPC meetings becaus we'll

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Speaker 2: get the growth target. Somewhere around five percent is what's expected.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people would be curious about

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that you make that point because obviously

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Speaker 3: I mean it's tough to say. It's tough to say.

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Speaker 3: Eighty to eighty five or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberry Energy and Commodities Editor. We're joined by I mentioned

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Speaker 3: So mention.

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Speaker 2: It's no small thing really to say that the economy

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Speaker 2: of investors would like to see, you know, put your

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're basically right, because why people hear

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Speaker 1: Minchen, Do you think that there will be an honest

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Speaker 2: Mintion, you said that what we need, you know, what

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Speaker 2: it seems like investors are saying it's too specific. What

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Speaker 6: Yes, I think if they want to stimulate the economy,

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Speaker 2: So we'll probably hear from Lee Cheong, you know, these

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Speaker 6: do something about it for real. So I think a program,

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Speaker 6: as I have written in Bloomberg that consume a voucher

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Speaker 6: applied to consumption. That kind of program will share people

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Speaker 6: Then they will start spending again.

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Speaker 1: What about China's role on the world stage very quickly?

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be the role of the leadership

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Speaker 1: more inward looking.

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Speaker 6: I think they have to be more inward looking because

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Speaker 6: the time when they can actually spend money waste money

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Speaker 2: All.

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean sheane should be a big week.

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Speaker 2: We hope to talk to you plenty over the next

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks as we analyze what we get out

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Speaker 2: of the two sessions, the CPPs which gets underway today,

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Speaker 2: report from Lee Chan will be quite interesting. Mentioned Pay's

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Speaker 2: political scientist and a fellow at Claremont mckinna College out

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