Five Events That Impacted China’s Economy in 2022

Five Events That Impacted China’s Economy in 2022
Unfinished apartment buildings at China Evergrande Group's Health Valley development on the outskirts of Nanjing, China, on Oct. 22, 2021. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
David Chu
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Looking back at 2022, China’s economy increasingly struggled under various policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). From the extreme “zero-Covid” policy to the regulations in the real estate sector, and from the waves of defaulted loans on incomplete buildings to the deterioration of exports, China’s economy has been hit hard, and many policies of the CCP authorities have undergone significant changes.

David Chu
David Chu
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David Chu is a London-based journalist who has been working in the financial sector for almost 30 years in major cities in China and abroad, including South Korea, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries. He was born in a family specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine and has a background in ancient Chinese literature.
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