There is no lack of reform ambition but there will be no clean break: the old system persists because no fully functional alternative exists
Yet such a conclusion would be premature. For all the structural reform rhetoric and policy experimentation, the uncomfortable truth is this: land finance and property-driven growth remain the quiet scaffolding of China’s economic system. Their dominance is diminished but their function remains indispensable.
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