China has set this year's budget deficit at 3% of GDP, down from a revised 3.8% last year. The issuance of 1 trillion yuan in special ultra-long treasury bonds this year is not included in the budget.

Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Sløk, has spotlighted a striking demographic transformation unfolding in ...

Notably, China has reported just a modest slowdown in real GDP growth from pre-pandemic levels — from 5.2% in 2023 to 4.8% on a year-to-date basis by the third quarter of 2024 — but ...

In 2023, China's population was officially reported as 1.41 billion, a decline of approximately 2.08 million from the previous year. Yet Yi maintains the true figure is about 130 million people ...

W hen China’s leaders set an economic-growth target of “around” 5% for this year, the goal was widely agreed to be ambitious. Now the country looks increasingly likely to meet it.

WHEN CHINA’S prime minister, Li Qiang, announced in March that the country’s GDP growth target for the year would be “around 5%”, the number seemed ambitious. After President Donald Trump ...

Beijing said Friday that China’s economy in 2024 hit the official economic-growth target for the year, and if you don’t believe that, well, no one else does either. China’s economic malaise ...

China Q4 GDP seen growing 5.0% y/y, vs 4.6% in Q3 GDP growth seen at 4.5% in 2025, 4.2% in 2026 Inflation seen at 0.8% in 2025, 1.4% in 2026 C.bank seen cutting key policy rate by 10 bps in Q1 C ...

China's economy expanded a healthy 5.4% in the first quarter, according to new official data, though that will probably be the high point for the year as the trade war starts to bite. Growth was ...

China's growing retiree population is sure to strain its economy, prompting Beijing to raise statutory retirement ages for the first time since they were established in the 1950s.