China set a lower growth target of “about 7 per cent” at last week’s session of the National People’s Congress. It was a signal that, while the double-digit growth years may be over, Beijing remains confident that the world’s biggest economy will continue to enjoy healthy rates of expansion. The truth is that outcomes will more likely be determined by an important contradiction in economic development strategy than any official pronouncements.
在剛剛閉幕的中國(guó)全國(guó)人大會(huì)議上,中國(guó)設(shè)定了“7%左右”這一較低的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)目標(biāo)。從中傳遞出的信號(hào)是,雖然年增速為兩位數(shù)的階段可能已經(jīng)結(jié)束,但中國(guó)政府依然相信這個(gè)全球最大經(jīng)濟(jì)體仍會(huì)享有可觀的增速。事實(shí)上,決定最終結(jié)果的更有可能是中國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略中的一個(gè)重要矛盾,而不是任何官方聲明。