Beijing: China faces inflationary pressure and the government's top priority is to tackle price increases, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in Beijing yesterday.
The global economic recovery faces many uncertainties, with some nations experiencing sovereign debt problems and others facing the risk of a downturn, Li said.
He was speaking during the Second Global Think Tank Summit held by the China Centre for International Economic Exchange this week.
Emerging economies need to have more representation on global issues, he said.
Current members
Countries should coordinate to cope with the financial crisis and they need to work together to tackle inflation, the vice premier added.
Li is one of nine current members of the standing committee of the ruling Communist Party
He is the front-runner to succeed Wen Jiabao as premier in 2013, according to Joseph Cheng, a political science professor at the City University of Hong Kong, as well as Li Cheng, the director of research at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Centre in Washington.
