China’s GDP growth made news this week because, on the official figures, China overtook Japan to become the second largest economy in the world in 2010. But actually, on a different way of calculating the data, this was very old news. Using purchasing power parity, China not only overtook Japan way back in 2001, but it is also quite close to overtaking the US as the biggest economy in the world – if, indeed, it has not done so already.
中國國內生產毛額(GDP)成長成爲近日令人關注的新聞,因爲官方數字顯示,中國在2010年已超越日本成爲世界第二大經濟體。但是,如果我們換一種方式來計算,這其實是一條老掉牙的「舊聞」。按購買力平價(PPP)衡量,中國不僅早在2001年就超越了日本,而且現在還相當接近於超越美國(的確,如果中國不是已經超越了美國的話)成爲世界最大的經濟體。
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