beijingwalker
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Increasing wealthy Chinese population will consumer more, China still has 5 times of US population.Chinese infrastructure is miraculous, everyone knows that. But there are also other sectors in the economy, which seems to be weakening. Especially now that the population is ageing, the consumption can not be increased, in my view the current decade may be the highest consumption in the Chinese economy, and since it produces far more than it can consume along with the de-globalization war started by USA & its allies( near-shoring), its going to be a difficult issue for China to handle. As many economists says, China's issues are structural, not a seasonal one.
As for population growth
China’s demographic doomsayers cite the wrong data,technically proficient Chinese population has grown 20-fold, or by 2,000%
China's demographic doomsayers cite the wrong data - Asia Times
A meme popular among American pundits claims that China’s economy is doomed by a slowly declining population. More important than the aggregate Chinese population is the technically proficient Chinese population. That has grown 20-fold, or by 2,000%, in the past 40 years. Other Asian countries...
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China’s drop in population is nothing to worry about – just look at history
China’s population fell in 2022 for the first time in decades, and although that may not bode well in the short term, a historical trend of growth despite famines and war should offer hope.
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