当人们讨论中国的经济增长时,这种讨论通常带有敬畏之情。可是,这些对中国经济业绩的评价几乎总是以一个问题结束:中国的迅速增长能持续多久?这是一个明显的、甚至是平庸的问题。但这不是一个适当的问题。因为提出这个问题表明,有关这个亚洲巨人在过去25年间的增长,存在某种非常的东西。值得注意的不是中国经济的增长多么迅速,而是中国经济的增长为何如此缓慢。 When people discuss China’s economic growth, this discussion is usually with awe. However, these assessments of China’s economic performance almost always conclude with one question: How long can China’s rapid growth continue? This is an obvious or even mediocre issue. But this is not an appropriate question. Because putting forward this question shows that there is something extraordinary about the growth of this Asian giant over the past 25 years. What merits attention is not how fast China’s economy is growing but how slow its growth is.