{"id":93260,"date":"2025-10-22T01:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:27:06","slug":"chinas-two-speed-economy-the-wire-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93260\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Two-Speed Economy &#8211; The Wire China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tBy  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewirechina.com\/team_member\/noah-berman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Berman<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t \u2014 \t\t\tOctober 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chinese-Factory-Workers-Manufacture-Solar-Power-Panels-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large  size-large  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Factory workers manufacture solar panels at an Eoplly New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. plant in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. Credit: ChinaImages via <a href=\"https:\/\/depositphotos.com\/editorial\/chinese-factory-workers-manufacture-solar-power-panels-plant-eoplly-new-245264994.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Depositphotos<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tChina\u2019s economy may still be on course to meet the government\u2019s growth target this year, but a look behind the headline figures illustrates just how \u2018two-speed\u2019 in nature that growth has become.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from Xi Jinping\u2019s speech on \u2018New Quality Productive Forces\u2019, November 12, 2024. Credit: Qiushi<\/p>\n<p>The country recorded overall third quarter GDP growth of 4.8 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, meaning it should still expand by around 5 percent in 2025 \u2014 in line with<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewirechina.com\/subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewirechina.com\/member-login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">login<\/a> to read the rest. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribers get full access to:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p> &#13;<br \/>\nExclusive longform investigative journalism, Q&amp;As, news and analysis, and data on Chinese business elites and corporations. We publish China scoops you won&#8217;t find anywhere else.&#13;<br \/>\nA weekly curated reading list on China from Andrew Peaple.&#13;<br \/>\nA daily roundup of China finance, business and economics headlines.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>We offer discounts for groups, institutions and students. Go to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thewirechina.com\/subscriptions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscriptions<\/a> page for details.<\/p>\n<p>Includes images from <a href=\"https:\/\/depositphotos.com\/home.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Depositphotos.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Noah Berman \u2014 October 21, 2025 Factory workers manufacture solar panels at an Eoplly New Energy Technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-93260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}