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While China continues to enjoy rapid economic expansion, it faces mounting challenges to ensure stable, more balanced growth over the long term, experts told the May 21 Keizai Koho Center-Brookings symposium.

Long Guoqiang, a senior fellow and deputy director general of the Development Research Center of China's State Council, said the most likely scenario is for China to maintain rapid growth in the years ahead.