China’s economy has risen in 40 years from a small experiment in agrarian socialism ravaged by the Cultural Revolution to become the world’s second-largest economy after the United States. China is not called the world’s factory for nothing, and it is a significant source of demand for raw materials. The country has also developed technologically, and some leading technology companies, such as Tencent and Alibaba, are the backbone of the country’s technological leap.
China has become significantly wealthier as a result of its investment-driven economic growth model, but at the same time, numerous dark clouds have appeared on the horizon: environmental pollution, reckless indebtedness, the growth of the system’s authoritarianism during Xi Jinping’s leadership, and an aging demography. China is aging faster than it is getting rich. At the same time, the country has drifted into more or less direct confrontations on the global arena, for example, due to industrial espionage. The most well-known of these is probably the trade war with the United States that began in 2018.
In this thread, one can discuss the future direction of China’s economy and companies in China.
From our domestic stock exchange, for example, a significant portion of KONE’s revenue comes from China. China is also a significant market for Optomed, for example. Because a large part of many companies’ production is located in China, when China sneezes, the whole world trembles.




