China’s Economic Risks

We spoke with Christopher Balding, Professor of economics at Peking University HSBC Business School.  Chis is a well know student of China’s economy.  He has was over 10k followers on twitter,  and writes on the Balding's World blog on China, as well as a column on Bloomberg View on China.

We spoke on several issues including;

* The official Xinhua news (owned by the Communist party) wrote an article on  “Why is 6 pct growth achievable for China's economy” out beyond 2020 thanks to improvement in industrial structure, upgrading of consumer spending and progress of urbanization.  Chris expressed his concerns with some issues like low productivity and negative demographics.
* Chris’s take on China’s ability to drive innovation and deploy technology to help drive growth
* His thoughts on supply side reform, and SOE reform. 
* His concerns about Chinese debt, and more broadly the risks in the financial system. 
* The property market in China, and the divergence between upper tier cities and lower tier cities

Business In China - Episode 05 - Christopher Balding

Forsyth Barr