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China's Future Economy

Geoff Riley

5th January 2017

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The FT's Beijing Correspondent Yuan Yang journeys into the manufacturing heartlands of the Chinese interior and finds that rapid industrial growth is giving way to less secure and less well paid service jobs. Industrial decline in remote areas is not unique to China but in China it is happening earlier before basic material prosperity has been achieved.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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