By most international standards, China’s 4 per cent year-on-year growth in the fourth quarter of last year was a pretty solid performance. Yet while it was slightly above most analysts’ predictions, it was the slowest pace of expansion for 18 months — representing a slide from 6.5 per cent growth during the same period of 2020. Overall, gross domestic product grew 8.1 per cent in 2021. Any sustained chill in Chinese expansion will have a global impact: according to IMF numbers, China is the biggest contributor to global GDP and was set to account for more than one-fifth of the total global growth in the five years to 2026.
以大多數國際標準衡量，中國去年第四季度國內生產總值(GDP)同比增長4%都是相當不錯的。然而，雖然這一數字略高于多數分析師的預測，但卻是18個月來最慢的增速——較2020年同期的6.5%出現了下滑。2021年全年中國GDP增長8.1%。中國經濟增長若是持續放緩將造成全球性影響：根據國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)的數據，中國是全球GDP的最大貢獻國，在截至2026年的5年里，中國對全球增長的貢獻將超過五分之一。