One striking fact is that annual growth in electricity demand has fallen sharply, to below 4% for the first eight months of 2014, a level recorded previously only in the depths of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008. For most of China’s modernization drive, electricity consumption has grown faster than output, not slower.
那么，中国经济目前状况如何？大部分证据表明已出现大幅放缓。一个令人震惊的事实是，电力需求年增长率大幅下降，2014年前八个月增幅降至4%以下，上一次达到如此低的水平是在2008年全球金融危机最严重的阶段。在中国的大多数现代化动力中，电力消费一直比产出增长更快而非更慢。