Li Daokui, an economist and member of the monetary policy committee of the People's Bank of China, said the exchange rate is just one of the many tools that China could deploy to adjust the structure of its economy. The country may choose other means, such as boosting domestic consumption and increasing imports, to achieve a trade balance, he said.
"China will not go down the path that Japan did and give in to foreign pressure on the yuan's exchange rate," Li said at an industry forum in Beijing.
"I think there is still a huge potential to boost China's domestic consumption," he added.
Many Chinese officials and researchers are wary of the experiences of Japan, which bowed to pressure from the US in 1985 to sign the Plaza Accord that allowed the Japanese yen to rise sharply to reduce a bulng US trade deficit.
But as money poured into Japan to chase the yen higher, loose monetary policy inflated an asset price bubble that burst in the beginning of the 1990s, ushering in two decades of economic stagnation for Japan.
Li said on Sunday that the economic circumstances in China today are very different from those in Japan in 1985.
"The biggest difference is that China has a huge domestic market," he said, noting that domestic consumption and the country's urbanization can sustain China's GDP to grow more than 9 percent annually in the next 10 years.
During the past few weeks, US lawmakers have been pressing for legislation that would require the US government to apply punitive sanctions against China and other countries with allegedly undervalued currencies.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said last week in congressional testimony that the US will use every available tool to urge China to let its currency rise more quickly and blamed the slow pace of yuan appreciation for US' trade deficit.
However, China has largely reduced its trade surplus during the past few years, Li said.
"But what has the US done to reduce its trade deficit?" Li said. "The US should pay much more attention to its own problems."
China vowed to make the yuan's exchange rate more flexible on June 19, ending a two-year peg to the US dollar. Since then, the yuan has gained 1.5 percent.
Earlier this month, China reported that its trade surplus shrank in August from July, as imports picked up.
Tracking the Dow on Friday,24/09/10.
9:30am:--Bullish 100.0 points gap up.Orders for U.S.-made durable goods fell less than expected in August.
10:30am:--Session high,inverted hammer.New-home sales remained flat in August.
11:30am:--Pullback time but still near the high.
12:30pm:--Consolidation phase and the bulls still in control.
1:30pm:--Another session high.Capital spending data in U.S., German sentiment help lift equities.
2:30pm:--A slight pullback and then hit a new session high.
3:30pm:--Slight profit-taking. Investments in capital goods continued to rise in August and this will increases demand and spurs job opportunities.
4:00pm:--Bearish spin.A slight pullback to follow.
The bulls are on rampage again bringing the spot month index to a new high.Since the overall candlestick for the month to date being a white bullish formation,any pullback is negligible.
It turns out the recession ended more than a year ago as declared by The National Bureau of Economic Research a group of economists based in Cambridge, Mass. It's their job to declare when recessions officially begin and end.
So now the party has begun.