Meanwhile, China's consumer prices fell the fastest in three years in November while factory-gate deflation deepened, indicating rising deflationary pressures as weak domestic demand casts doubt over the economic recovery. Xu Tianchen, senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said the data would be alarming for policymakers and cited three main factors behind it: falling global energy prices, the fading of the winter travel boom and a chronic supply glut. Early this month, rating agency Moody's downgraded the outlook for China's economy from 'stable' to 'negative' owing to persistently lower medium-term economic growth and the ongoing downsizing of the property sector in the country.
China is struggling with grave portends for its economy which has been for long the toast of the world. China’s economy will slow next year, with annual growth falling to 4.5% from 5.2% this year despite a recent recovery spurred by investments in factories and construction and in demand for services, the World Bank said in a report last week.
While it was briefly seen to be emerging strongly out of the Zero-Covid policies, the hope was short lived. The ongoing real estate crisis has dampened the consumer spirit, huge debt is weighing down the economy, foreign investors are losing confidence and unemployment and deflation are dogging the world's second-largest economy. Add to that President Xi Jinping's crackdown on private business. While China is not heading towards a collapse, its miracle growth is now a thing of the past.
China's economic problems are short-term as well as structural. While China can come to grips with its short-term problems, the structural problems pose a big
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