China should shift the focus of its stimulus from investment to consumption and further loosen urban residency curbs to boost migrant workers' spending power, a central bank policy adviser said.
"The target of our stimulus should shift from investment to consumption, which can more directly correspond to our actual economic bottlenecks and weaknesses," Cai Fang, an adviser to the People's Bank of China , said at a business forum on the weekend, according to a transcript of his speech.
Reforms of China's system on residence permits, or "hukou", will boost the consumption for 180 million rural migrant workers who had entered cities, said Cai, who is also an influential economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top state think tank.China has been pushing reforms to gradually loosen its grip on urban residence permits - in place since the 1950s - to support urbanisation.
The government has promised to prioritise a consumption recovery this year, but has so far not delivered large-scale subsidies for consumers, while local authorities still invest heavily in infrastructure projects to spur growth. China's cabinet met to discuss measures to boost economic growth at end-June and investors are looking to an expected Politburo meeting in July for clues on policy direction.
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