{"id":81440,"date":"2021-02-28T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=281032"},"modified":"2021-02-28T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:09:14","slug":"china-got-its-economy-growing-again-but-a-shortfall-in-babies-will-be-harder-to-fix-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/02\/28\/china-got-its-economy-growing-again-but-a-shortfall-in-babies-will-be-harder-to-fix-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"China Got Its Economy Growing Again, but a Shortfall in Babies Will Be Harder to Fix  WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>China may have blunted the pandemic\u2019s impact on its economy, but a shortfall in babies is clouding its growth horizon.<br \/>\nIn the short term, the Chinese economy looks comparatively strong \u2014helped by its quick stamping out of the virus\u2019s spread and heavy state investment\u2014and some economists earlier this year predicted that China could overtake the U.S. as the world\u2019s largest economy by 2028, years earlier than expected.<br \/>\nBut the world\u2019s most populous country is losing when it comes to demographics. Ahead of the results of China\u2019s once-a-decade census, there have been several indications that fewer babies were born in the country in 2020 than in any year since 1961, when China suffered mass starvation.<br \/>\nA report from Capital Economics this month says it is possible that slowing productivity growth and a shrinking workforce would prevent China from ever overtaking the U.S., or that if it does, the U.S. would regain the top spot again, helped by immigration that keeps refilling its supply of workers.<br \/>\nMark Williams, a London-based economist at Capital Economics, compared it with il sorpasso , Italy\u2019s moment of pride in the late 1980s when it overtook the U.K., only to drop back again.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China may have blunted the pandemic\u2019s impact on its economy, but a shortfall in babies is clouding its growth horizon.<br \/>\nIn the short term, the Chinese economy looks comparatively strong \u2014helped by its quick stamping out of the virus\u2019s spread and heavy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,586,194],"tags":[10424,3472,2461,5099],"class_list":["post-81440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-economy","category-news-chinese-law","tag-china-general-news","tag-chinese","tag-immigration","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81441,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81440\/revisions\/81441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}