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China’s economy is going through a ‘slow, painful, grinding adjustment,’ analyst says

September 16, 2024
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SINGAPORE — Following a slew of data released over the weekend from China that painted a fairly bleak outlook for its economy, analysts have tapered their expectations for the country’s full year GDP growth.

“There hasn’t been much good news in this latest round of data, and this has been the pattern for the last few months,” said Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade and economics at Cornell University, on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Monday.

“Both the long term issues related to property prices and so on, and the short term issues related to domestic demand in particular, especially private investment and household consumption have not been doing well at all,” Prasad said.

He warned that Beijing’s economic outlook for the second half of the year is now “flashing red, or pretty close to red.”

Duncan Wrigley, chief strategist at Everbright Securities International, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” that on the “positive side, you could say, given the size of this big housing downturn, what China hasn’t seen — say, compared with many other subprime crisis, Japan’s big housing downturn — you haven’t seen a systemic financial crisis in China, or certainly not globally.”

“So to some extent, the Chinese government has managed to insulate this big adjustment in the housing market from the financial sector and prevent a bigger crisis. So instead, they’re going through this sort of slow, painful, grinding adjustment,” Wrigley added.

Data released Saturday showed that China’s retail sales, industrial production and urban investment in August grew slower than expected in August, all missing the expectations of economists polled by Reuters. Urban jobless rate rose to a six-month high, while year-on-year home prices fell at their fastest pace in nine years.

The figures were the latest in a series of disappointments for the world’s second-largest economy, which has experienced a lackluster recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prasad criticized the Chinese government for being too slow to enforce bolder measures to stimulate the economy. “Using monetary policy requires fairly significant action. It also requires early action, and we haven’t seen either of those from the Chinese government,” he said.

China’s economy is going through a ‘slow, painful, grinding adjustment,’ analyst says

With the U.S. Federal Reserve widely expected to cut rates later this week, Helen Qiao, chief Greater China economist and head of Asia economics at the Bank of America, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” that the People’s Bank of China will likely not be cutting as much as its American counterpart.

Still, the deceleration of economic growth warrants more easing, Qiao said, adding that job security and income growth are main drivers for consumer spending, and right now, both are lacking in China.

Bank of America had lowered their forecast for China’s 2024 GDP growth to 4.8%, below the government’s target of 5%. Citigroup also lowered their projection to 4.7% following the data released over the weekend.

China’s production side, which had been holding up reasonably well until a few months ago, is also beginning to weaken, Cornell’s Prasad added. “I wouldn’t quite say the Chinese economy is in very dire straits yet, but it’s getting there.”

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