Of course, global savings and consumption patterns have undergone significant change since the financial crisis, with both the West and China trying to restore internal equilibrium. Doubling average household income by 2020 – the target set at the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Congress in November – is likely to release 64 trillion renminbi ($10.3 trillion) in purchasing power, with China’s huge internal market gradually becoming a new long-term driver of domestic and international growth.