A workers' manifesto for China.

• Author: Rees, Matthew
• Position: Just the facts: TIE's Executive News Service

"China will soon boast seven of the world's ten biggest shopping malls. Yet Chinese households are hardly the most eager shoppers. Consumer spending has fallen from 47 percent of GDP in the early 1990s to only 36 percent in 2006, the lowest proportion in any large economy. At the other extreme, American households consume 70 percent of GDP."

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