An Economic Pressure Cooker

China’s PPI growth continues to risers its CPI growth keeps dropping. What does this mean for industry and the economy?

China's Cotton Textile Industry Faces Growing Pressure The analysis of economic performance of China's cotton textile industry in Jan.-Feb.(Part A)

Although the Chinese government has published a seriesof favorable policies for textile industry,the outcome of thesefiscal policies in Chinese cotton machinery industry tends to besmall at this stage,since the effects of policies is hysteresial,and the industry had extended 2009 spring holiday amid thefinancial crisis.

Chinese Economists’ Confidence Survey Economic Growth Was Expected to Be Slower and the Inflationary Pressure Was Still Quite High

As shown in the results of 100 Chinese Economists’ Confi- dence Survey,conducted by China’s Economic Monitoring and Analy- sis Center,National Bureau of Statistics,the confidence index of the economists in the second quarter of 2008 was 4.55 in the range of the values between 1 and 9.The survey indicated that,under the influence of the major factors such as the worsened international economic situations,the evident decline of the demand for export and the quite big inflationary pressure,etc,the economists had shown evidently deeper concem over the economic trend.