https://www.scmp.com/rss/325964/feed Xu Qing is a senior investment manager at Neo-Criterion Capital Limited, an investment company specialising in pan-China equities en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China’s stellar rise to the world’s second-largest economy was underpinned by an abundant supply of cheap labour and capital, huge export markets buying cheap Chinese goods, and a growth-at-all-cost development model at the expense of environmental and social well-being. Now, the low-hanging fruits have been picked and the old economic engines are spluttering. First, the demographic dividend is diminishing and society is rapidly ageing. The number of working-age Chinese has been dropping, and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122920/china-must-innovate-now-or-lose-its-economic-competitiveness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122920/china-must-innovate-now-or-lose-its-economic-competitiveness?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Dec 2017 09:10:56 +0000