China’s latest medium-term policy blueprint continues to elevate technological upgrading as the key to both security and growth. It acknowledges some of the negative side effects of industrial policy and the need to rebalance towards consumption. But it stops short of making a firm commitment to decisively tackle supply-demand imbalances, without which efforts to lift productivity may underwhelm.
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