Industrial economy to maintain uptrend

China is confident and capable of stabilizing its sprawling industrial economy, which will underpin the country's high-quality growth and give stability to global supply chains amid rising external uncertainties and disruptions to world trade systems, officials and experts said on Friday.

While acknowledging short-term challenges, they stressed that China's industrial economy — characterized by its strong resilience, vast potential and vibrant dynamism — will maintain its upward trajectory.

The remarks came after China's value-added industrial output rose 6.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 0.8 percentage point from the last quarter.