China’s Incomplete Growth Strategy
While China's leaders should be applauded for their commitment to implementing painful structural reforms, they are ignoring the present. In fact, China faces two separate challenges: the long-term issue of a declining potential growth rate and the immediate problem of below-potential actual growth.
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BEIJING – China’s economic growth has been slowing for six years – far longer than expected. Eager to stem the slide, Chinese government officials and economists have desperately sought a clear explanation pointing toward an effective policy response. And, last November, they officially placed the blame on long-term supply-side shortcomings, which they pledged to address with far-reaching structural reforms.