No turning back

For all the pledges of support for struggling manufacturers, the surprise package of the recent session of the National People's Congress (NPC) was actually a definitive rejection of the export-led growth model. While China will obviously remain open to foreign commerce, Beijing's response to the global economic slowdown is to emphasize even more strongly the role of domestic consumption and domestic investment in maintaining growth.

Many foreign observers expected that the pressure t...

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