China is trying to strike a balance: on the one hand to keep its economy growing at a steady rate, and on the other, to stop it overheating and crashing.Over the last few months, the Chinese government has been pulling levers to avoid a hard landing, with commodity producers watching how the world's largest industrial minerals market responds to the tinkering.China also supports the global economy in general, after numerous banking crisis and euro-zone debt problems sent developed countries into recession. Globalisation means it is not a one-way system, with problems elsewhere in the world affecting Chinese growth too.
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