The strategic shift is also a deliberate effort by Chinese policymakers to avoid the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a mid-stage slowdown that has ensnared most emerging economies when per capita income nears the $17,000 threshold (in constant international prices). Developing economies that maintain their old growth models for too long fall into it, and China probably will hit the threshold in 3-5 years.
战略转型也是中国决策者为避开“中等收入陷阱”的深思熟虑之举——“中等收入陷阱”是指多数经济体在人均收入接近17，000美元大关（国际不变价格）时的中期增长放缓。长时间保持原有增长模式的发展中经济体可能会落入陷阱，而中国或许会在3－5年内进入上述阶段。