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Spending time

By Geoff Dyer

Published: October 17 2008 16:20 | Last updated: October 17 2008 16:20

For the past five years, China has enjoyed what can only be called turbo-charged growth. In each year, the economy not only expanded by more than 10 per cent but in each year the growth rate also accelerated.

Such a rapid pace of expansion could not continue forever and this period is now clearly coming to an end. But what sort of slowdown China experiences during the next few years remains unclear.

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