[中国新闻] 中国经济:与公牛赛跑

外媒:中国经济实力赶上美国至少需10年
3 J! ]  D$ @5 L+ R. R5 G/ n0 O2010年08月19日 14:15   来源:中新社   黄瑞
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中新社北京8月19日电 (黄瑞)2010年第2季度中国GDP超越日本的消息一经公布,迅即引起西方媒体对中国未来经济走向的广泛讨论。华尔街日报称,以现在的经济增长速度,中国仍需要10年甚至更长的时间,赶上美国世界第一的经济地位。
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  华尔街日报一篇题为《中国产量赶超日本》的报道分析,尽管中国有望在今年全年GDP总量上超过日本,成为世界第二大经济体,然中国全年约5万亿美元的经济总量与美国将近15万亿美元的经济总量之间,仍存在巨大的差距。
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  英国金融时报分析了中国经济面临的严重问题,并称这些问题却被外界所忽视。在其刊登的《中国的跳跃预示着世界权利之转移》报道援引中国社科院金融发展研究中心主任易宪容评论说,当我们谈及中国经济时,应该避免高估中国的力量;中国存在巨大的贫富差距和地区发展不平衡,若这些问题无法得到解决,中国GDP的高速增长将失去意义。) k% n. J1 N# W8 z
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  在路透社的评论文章《与公牛赛跑:对2020年中国经济的乐观看法》里,澳大利亚国立大学经济学教授罗斯·加诺特对中国经济的未来作出了积极判断。他说,中国将进入一个更高质量的经济增长期,尤其是在中国廉价劳动力无限供应已成为历史的情况下。
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, ]0 s8 Q& h0 ?$ j7 p/ O' c6 {3 |人在德国 社区  金融时报表示,当GDP排名上升为中国带来更多外界审视之际、当世界对中国在国际舞台上承担责任有更多期待之时,如何确立与其他地区之间的关系,对中国政府来说至关重要。9 T6 D. ?7 K5 ?
  华尔街日报分析了中国现阶段采取的对外战略。为了巩固自身的国际地位、避免令周边国家感到受威胁,中国已开始强调“和平崛起”,并积极拓展文化交流领域。
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* A. _% e# q& U+ u! W: s  比较中国与日本的经济发展,金融时报指出,在更为重要的购买力方面,中国在近十年前已超过日本,而中国的季度GDP总值超过日本,则更多的与汇率及统计方法有关;为了说明这点,经济学家会告诉你,两个国家使用相同材料和人工,建造一样的房屋,日本创造的国内生产总值是中国的3倍,原因在于日本所花费的一切成本均比中国高出很多。
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Running with the bulls: A rosy view of China in 2020  Source : Reuters
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BEIJING: By 2020, China is entering its fifth decade of sustained growth. The trade surpluses that used to strain the global economy have shrunk into insignificance as the Middle Kingdom's consumption steadily grows.
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A productive workforce is much better paid, lancing the boil of a widening income gap. Purchasing power has surged thanks to a stronger yuan. Beijing is a leader in improving energy efficiency. + ?! R( Y9 e/ v6 Z" g5 D6 \" b; t

; r$ }9 l( l# K( k; lLet's leave aside worries of a property bubble and a new crop of bad loans. Forget the spectre of protectionism. ( t' |! s& O+ S6 y1 [1 N
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After investors' bearish reaction last week to a moderate slowdown in economic growth in July, it's time to make again the unabashed long-term bullish case for China.
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0 w- o" u' O# p" yRoss Garnaut, an economics professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, is among those confident that China is about to enter an era of higher-quality growth, not least because demographics dictate that unlimited supplies of cheap labour will soon be a thing of the past. ( }9 @# n  U, m

- z0 b1 _/ e7 d9 j; s& `, RFirst and foremost, there will be large and continuing increases in real wages and in the wage share of income, Garnaut wrote in the East Asia Forum, an online newsletter.
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% z8 b" Z4 |0 c5 q  a) oThis is critical. Pay has risen briskly in China, but profits and the government's share of national income have risen even faster, squeezing workers.
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0 w6 K- i) Z6 ]* ]# m3 M* o3 C: o6 }( e( B"The powerful tendency since the 1980s towards increased inequality in income distribution is likely to be reversed," Garnaut wrote. 人在德国 社区9 j* ?  Y, X" q( e' X
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In this virtuous circle, spending will rise and the national savings rate will fall, thus reducing China's external surpluses and easing tensions with Beijing's trading partners. rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de/ J* c9 Q0 v7 j( J, b' h
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Garnaut said there was no basis for assuming that a shrinking workforce, which is set to contract from around 2015, would dent the productivity gains; the economy could keep expanding at close to the near double-digit average of the past 30 years of market reform.
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4 P* A+ u8 ]5 Q4 t. g' O5 s9 Qrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThat headlong growth catapulted China past Japan last quarter to become the world's second-largest economy, according to an estimate on Monday by Japan's Cabinet Office.
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Urbanisation, development of the interior and investment in a low-carbon economy will sustain growth at more than 9 per cent in the coming decade, according to Li Daokui, an economics professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de% m1 N8 d4 W9 j; O7 H' Q" b
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China, Lie said, is set to enjoy a "golden period".
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; i7 d/ o$ P6 x5 t+ i- lIf he's right, the consequences for the rest of the world will be far-reaching. & Y, z) M& m5 Z8 A. A% G

9 C* M4 a$ S5 R8 qInternational Monetary Fund economists Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis calculate that, over the last two decades, a per centage point extra Chinese growth is correlated with an average rise of 0.5 percentage point in other countries' growth.
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& W6 q/ F( Q% v3 ?( c; N. Zrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de"Moreover, while China's spillovers initially only mattered for neighbouring countries, the importance of distance has diminished over time," they wrote in a working paper. 9 a+ }0 ~/ w% w# f) l$ [9 {

3 ?; ?+ Q* S; O7 J" U' z9 d- M人在德国 社区Garnaut reckons even richer vistas could open up for the likes of India as China's comparative advantage shifts to technologically complex goods from simple manufactures. & G! f$ i" K9 X  g. S7 `

& W! E; j) N( C8 f8 D* g: ^Think high-speed trains, not plastic toys.