Highlights

• 　　President Xi Jinping: the AIIB is to effectively increase infrastructure investment in Asia and promote regional connectivity and economic integration
• 　　The AIIB successfully held the inaugural meeting of the Council in Beijing on January 16-17
• 　　MOF published the guidelines on subjecting local government debt to the prescribed limit
• 　　China’s final verified GDP in 2014 is 63.591 trillion RMB
• 　　China preliminary GDP figures for Q4 and 2015