Chinese Growth May Only Be At 4% Instead Of Official 7.5%

China’s economy is probably growing at an annual rate of 4 percent, said Marc Faber, editor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, brushing aside a recent string of upbeat economic numbers from the world’s second biggest economy.

“I said to an economist I think China is growing at 4 percent per annum and he said do you mean minus 4 percent?,” Faber told CNBC on the sidelines of a hedge fund conference in Singapore on Wednesday.

“I don’t think [China’s economic growth] is minus 4 percent, but we do have to adjust a lot of economic statistics for the credit that has been pushed into the system that is not sustainable in the long-run,” he added.

China’s economy grew 7.7 percent last year and the country has a 2013 growth target of 7.5 percent.

CNBC

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Mingze Wu

Mingze Wu

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Based in Singapore, Mingze Wu focuses on trading strategies and technical and fundamental analysis of major currency pairs. He has extensive trading experience across different asset classes and is well-versed in global market fundamentals. In addition to contributing articles to MarketPulseFX, Mingze centers on forex and macro-economic trends impacting the Asia Pacific region.
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