China’s economic transformation: Explore how high-tech manufacturing, surging R&D investment, and consumer spending became the primary drivers of GDP growth over the past five years.
China faces an unprecedented demographic crisis as its population ages and workforce shrinks. With fertility rates in cities like Shanghai plummeting to 0.5 and the elderly comprising 15% of the population by 2025, the economic foundations of its miracle growth are eroding. Explore how soaring dependency ratios, urban pressures, and a collapsing birth rate threaten China’s ambition to become a high-income economy.
Comparing GDP between China and the West is like comparing muscle mass to fat content. Both are economic weight, only one is useful.