Shrinking workforce not a major threat to growth

The release of figures showing that China’s working age population continued to fall last year has revived concerns about demographic headwinds to China’s growth. In this China Watchwe discuss why concerns over a shrinking workforce are overplayed and why other variables will matter much more to China’s economic trajectory over the next few decades.

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