After having announced, at the end of September, several measures intended to soften the consequences of the real estate crisis which hurts the country (reduction of the personal contribution and of the real estate loans rates and of the banks required reserves) and offered financial supports to local authorities for around 140 billion dollars, the Chinese government has just decided to make more accommodative the monetary policy for the first time for 14 years. It has left to understand that a support program of the household demand will be put into place in 2025. The Chinese president Xi Jinping, when ...

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In September, the political Bureau of the Chinese Communist party had a meeting and has made known that new measures to support economic activity were going to be announced without entering into the details. The objective of a 5% growth rate seemed to be difficult to be reached and it is that which has attracted the attention of the commentators. Yet, the fact that the Chinese GDP growth was 4.9%, as it emerges from the 1st half figures, or 5% has no importance. The accurateness of the statistics does not allow to giving attention to such small spreads. It ...

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After the publication of the Chinese growth during the 2^nd quarter, and according to the consultation of the international medias or of the Chinese newspapers, we are worry or reinsured. The international press notes that the 1^st estimation of the GDP growth (4.7% year on year) is in retreat compared to the 1^st quarter one (5.3% year on year) and sees there a sign of an important slowing which is the consequence of the structural problems the country is confronted with. To the opposite, the Chinese Daily News is satisfied because growth during the 1 ...

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