BEIJING – After three decades of 9.8% average annual GDP growth, China’s economic expansion has been slowing for 13 consecutive quarters – the first such extended period of deceleration since the “reform and opening up” policy was launched in 1979. Real GDP grew at an annual rate of only 7.5% in the second quarter of this year (equal to the target actually set by the Chinese government at the beginning of this year).
发自北京——在经历了过去30年年均9.8%的GDP增长后，中国的经济增长已连续13个季度放缓了——这是自1979年改革开放政策出台以来的首次长时间减速。今年第二季度的GDP增长年率仅为7.5%（刚好等于中国政府今年年初制定的目标）。许多指标显示经济正在进一步减速，越来越多的投资者对中国的前景感到悲观。那么中国会因此走向崩溃吗？