In order to avoid such an outcome, Li must adapt China’s growth model to current conditions, which include intensifying trade friction with the European Union and the United States, greater pressure to allow the renminbi to appreciate, an aging population, slowing urbanization, and rising labor costs. The “new normal” that has emerged from the global financial crisis, characterized by sluggish GDP growth and diminished import demand in the West, makes reform even more urgent.
为了避免这一结果，李克强必须改变中国经济模式以适应当前环境，包括与欧盟和美国的贸易摩擦的日益激烈、允许人民币升值的压力的日渐增加、人口的日渐老化、城市化的日渐放缓以及劳动力成本的日渐上升。产生于全球金融危机、以西方GDP增长停滞和出口下降为特征的“新常态”使得改革更加迫切了。