October 26, 2005 | posted by Michael Baxter in Uncategorized |

By 2010, the Chinese economy is likely to be twice its size at the turn of the millennium. The Chinese government says that it needs to grow by an average of just 5.6% per year for the rest of this decade for this to happen and yet expects growth of at least 7.5%. In the first half of this decade, China grew by an average of 8.8% per year.