China will absolutely not have a hard economic landing - state planner chairman

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - China is not headed for a hard economic landing, and it is not dragging on the global economy, the country's top economic planner said on Sunday.

"China will absolutely not experience a hard landing," Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told reporters at a briefing in Beijing.

"You need to look at the situation objectively. These predictions of a hard landing are destined to come to nothing," he said.