Diplomatic take: Envoys welcome the two sessions

Khamis Mussa Omar, ambassador of Tanzania to China

The two sessions are very important for China. It's very important for South-South cooperation. China also has its own place within the global economy as well. Whatever that has been planned in China has huge ramifications elsewhere.

Everybody is very keen to listen to what is happening within the two sessions. For us in the diplomatic community as well, we follow up very closely with the deliberations in the two sessions.

People sometimes look at the economic numbers, the growth numbers in particular and start saying China's economy is "slowing down", as the growth used to be double digits.

Now it is 5 percent (of GDP growth target for 2025). This is what I expected from economic theory. It was expected that it would never continue to be double-digit. But it will not really slow down, because now you start with a different kind of size of economy, the base has grown up and is catching up with other countries as well.

So five percent growth of an economy as big as China is not small growth. Last year China contributed 30 percent of the global growth. Five percent growth in China, contributed 30 percent to global growth. It's very significant.