Lin and Hutton find sticking points in the same places. They agree (1) that national enterprises pose a bottleneck, (2) that the financial system is weak, and (3) that there is a large gap between the cities and the countryside and that consumer power is lacking. These three underlying weaknesses create chronic, intractable problems.
他們認為，國有企業瓶頸、金融制度脆弱、城鄉差距擴大與消費力不足等，是中國從社會主義往資本主義過渡的 3 大隱憂，且這些隱憂都已形同牢固的沉痾。