Background: The shrinkage of working age population at ages between 15 and 59 after 2010 will end the era of the high-speed economic growth in China. This paper is intended to explore the ways of tackling this slowdown. Methods: By revealing annual growth rate of potential output to drop to 7.2...

The root cause behind the Chinese economy's slowing down in 2012 lies in a "one-size-fits-all" approach to macroeconomic management. This approach must be abandoned if domestic demand is to be effectively boosted. A superior approach would involve the introduction of policies tailored to the...