BEIJING, Jan 5 (Reuters) - China's yuan is facing a new round of appreciation pressure and expectations of a stronger currency will attract speculative inflows, complicating liquidity management, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Zhang Xiaoqiang, a vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's powerful central planner, said the country would continue to encourage overseas investment to secure stable supplies of energy and resources in support of its growth.
He said international energy prices were likely to rise further and that China should be more active in dealing with these increases. (Reporting by Zhou Xin and Simon Rabinovitch; Editing by Chris Lewis)