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Podcast | China’s new economic growth model

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For decades, China's economy was driven by debt-fueled construction of housing and infrastructure.

But once the housing market collapsed in 2021, China needed to find a new growth model.

The key parts of that new model are well known:

Industrial upgrading
Aggressive export growth
Technological ...