Chinese authorities unfazed by hard landing

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From Forexlive, comments from National Bureau of Statistics of China spokesman Sheng Laiyunon GDP figures:

  • Employment, inflation and market expectations are basically stable
  • China’s major economic indicators in reasonable range
  • China growth slowdown positive for structural adjustment
  • Services industry development is accelerating and consumption growth is solid
  • China faces downward economic pressure, mainly because of domestic factors
  • China power output fall partly due to energy efficiency
  • China’s domestic demand has big potential

No big bang stimulus coming.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.