Premier Wen Jiabao met in Beijing with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Thursday afternoon in Beijing, and the two sides exchanged views on the Chinese economy and other issues of common concern.

 

Wen briefed the IMF chief with the latest developments of the Chinese macro economy and tasks that the Chinese government would undertake in 2008. He stressed the importance of a stable Chinese economy for the world economy that is in danger of a slowdown.

 

Chinese government is making efforts to change its economic development pattern and optimize the economic structural, Wen told the IMF chief, according to a press release from the People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank.

 

Wen expressed his hope that the IMF, under Strauss-Kahn's leadership, would speed up the process of internal reform so that its governance structure could better reflect the transition of the world economy.

 

Wen also announced that China would join IMF's financial system assessment program in 2008.

 

The press release did not offer any detail of Strauss-Kahn's remarks during the meeting.

 

Strauss-Kahn was here at the PBOC's invitation.

 

(Xinhua News Agency February 15, 2008)