Analysts also caution that data from China at the beginning of the year may be distorted by week-long Chinese New Year public holidays, which started in early February this year. In 2018, Chinese New Year holidays started in mid-February.
Despite concerns of a deceleration in Chinese growth, Eastspring is bullish on the world’s second-largest economy as there are “a lot of ways to play China,” Lien said.
She said the Chinese domestic market is one Eastspring is focused on.
“The domestic economy is a hugely growing and large part of the market, there’s plenty of opportunities there,” she said.
China is currently in the midst of a two-week annual parliamentary meeting, the National People’s Congress, which kicked off on Tuesday and ends next Friday (Mar. 5-15).
At the opening of that meeting this week, Premier Li Keqiang said the Chinese economy will likely slow this year, and revealed that the official economic growth target for 2019 will be 6 to 6.5 percent. That compares to an expansion of 6.6 percent in 2018 — which was already China’s slowest pace of growth since 1990.
—Reuters contributed to this report.
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