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Beijing Gears Up to Make Its 2022 Growth Target

Beijing Gears Up to Make Its 2022 Growth Target
A worker uses a hand tool to make containers at a factory in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu Province on Aug. 27, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Even after reporting (some would say dubiously) strong 8.1 percent growth for 2021, Beijing knows that after last year’s power shortages and new waves of COVID-19, it will have to work hard to get even the minimum targeted 5 percent real growth in 2022.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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