For the time being, sentiment about China’s future remains relentlessly upbeat. McKinsey consultants have even forecast that the upper middle-class will number 520 million by 2025 – the sort of projection that the communist mandarins welcome as a tribute to their strange hybrid of a market economy and rigid state control.
目前，人们对于中国未来还是保持一贯的乐观高调。麦肯锡咨询公司甚至预计，到2025年，中高阶层人口将达到5亿2千万。中共官员欢迎这种预计，因为这是对于其市场经济和严厉的国家控制的奇怪的组合的肯定。但是，这几乎正是他们应当警觉的预计。