China sets the deck for renewed reform push

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Yesterday we had Xi Jinping privileging wider reform attacking the bubble, from Caixin:

Curbing wasteful socialist-era business practices and taming unruly real estate and lending sectors will take center stage at the annual meeting of China’s legislature, which starts next week, with some also looking for signs of a pickup in economic growth.

The annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) often sets the tone for Beijing’s economic priorities in the year ahead, with many policies hammered out in advance of a session that runs through mid-March. The NPC coincides with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a separate meeting that starts on Friday that’s attended by many of the nation’s top business and social leaders who advise legislators on various issues.

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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.