If you look at the underlying table [1], it looks like they will miss it again. Most importantly they keep forecasting China to grow at &gt;6% in the short term. China is in a deep transition right now, 50% of their economy is in investment (building stuff mostly). This was fine in 2008-2011, but right now that has to stop, very quickly. They have run out of productive investments that make sense. Even if they grow at 0% they still need to find $6 Trillion of investment every year!, that&#x27;s how lopsided their economy is. The transition to consumer and services will take time only because the hole from investment is so large ($6 Trillion&#x2F;year). The fallout is that other economies that depend on Chinese investment will suffer lower growth as well. China and rest of world dependent on china make maybe 1&#x2F;2 of the forecasted growth. I question how much will materialize.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imf.org&#x2F;external&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;ft&#x2F;weo&#x2F;2016&#x2F;update&#x2F;01&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;0116.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imf.org&#x2F;external&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;ft&#x2F;weo&#x2F;2016&#x2F;update&#x2F;01&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;0...</a>