China says it can achieve sustainable growth despite global uncertainties

China's economy will continue to achieve sustainable growth despite global uncertainties, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan said on Wednesday, days after the second-largest economy posted its weakest economic expansion in nearly three decades.

"There will be a lot of uncertainties in 2019, but China's economy will continue to achieve sustainable growth," Wang told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"Speed does matter. But what really matters is the quality and efficiency of our economic development," he said.

Wang added that China did not see its economy entering an end of an expansionary cycle.

In a remark apparently aimed at the United States,