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China set for decades of strong growth
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China will maintain reasonably rapid growth while making a significant contribution to global growth, a US economist has said.
“China’s absolute growth, I think, will continue in the middle to high single digits for several decades,” said Albert Keidel, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States.
He mainly attributed his optimistic projection to China’s economic resilience as well as the country’s growth-oriented policies.
In the midst of a complex external environment, China’s economy ended 2018 on firm footing, with an emphasis on higher quality growth.
The world’s second-largest economy grew 6.6 percent year on year to 90.03 trillion yuan (US$13.28 trillion) in 2018, above the official target of around 6.5 percent, according to data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics. Keidel, who is also an adjunct graduate professor at the Economics Department of George Washington University, said the average level of income and an appropriate distribution within that level of income are among the important metrics to gauge the health of an economy.
“By both measures, China has done extremely well and is still doing well,” said Keidel, a former senior economist in the World Bank’s Beijing office.
The longtime China watcher said the Chinese economy has been demonstrating great vitality since the country’s reform and opening-up.
Calling the achievements China has scored over the past four decades of reform and opening-up “impressive,” Keidel noted that the country has “really given the world a model” to solve long-term problems such as increasing infrastructure investments to reduce bottlenecks.
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