FOR DECADES, China’s leaders have laid claim to reigning over economic growth. Now the focus is shifting from prosperity to self-reliance and security.
The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief David Rennie and senior China correspondent Alice Su interpret the targets set at the National People’s Congress with The Economist’s China business editor Simon Cox. They discuss what this change of focus means for business at home and abroad. And Jing Qian, co-founder and executive director of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, decodes why Xi Jinping’s realignment of China’s economic priorities is happening now. Running time: 33 min
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