Chinese yawnulus turns economic valium

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Credit Agricole lists the top ten priorities of the new yawnulus package.


The ten major government work tasks for the year:

  1. Boost consumption and stimulate domestic demand by increasing household income and boosting consumption in the cultural, tourism & sports sectors. China will continue to support consumer goods trade-in programmes as well as investment in strategically important projects and security capacity.
  2. Ramp up modern industrialisation with a focus on developing cutting-edge sectors and upgrading traditional industries. China will also boost the digital economy and use AI to empower intelligent equipment (such as EVs and robots) manufacturing.
  3. Promote technology and education by developing high-quality education systems, intensifying key technology breakthroughs and attracting talent.
  4. .Continue to deepen reforms in the fiscal, taxation and financial sectors; support private sector economy and address rat race competition.
  5. Further opening up by stabilising trade, encouraging foreign investment and deepening multilateral & regional economic cooperation.
  6. Curb systemic risks by stabilising the property market and addressing risk in local government debt. The government will also actively prevent financial risks through capital replenishment, mergers and reorganisation.
  7. Support agriculture and rural areas.
  8. Advance urbanisation and coordinate growth across different regions.
  9. Promote the green transition by improving the environment, boosting the green & low-carbon economy and actively working towards peaking carbon dioxide emissions & carbon neutrality.
  10. Improve people’s wellbeing by stabilising employment, improving healthcare & elderly services and providing better support for child raising.

What is missing? Any focus on building more apartments and bridges to nowhere. 

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.