China confident of stabilising industrial growth in 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is confident of maintaining steady industrial growth this year in spite of big pressures facing the sector, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei said on Monday.The country's industrial output topped expectations in December by growing 6.9% from a year earlier, the strongest pace in nine months, bringing full-year 2019 expansion to 5.7%.Economic growth in the world's second largest-economy cooled to a near 30-year low of 6.1% in 2019 amid a bruising..