The economic 'supertrends' that propel China forward

While interviewing Jason Inch by telephone about his latest book, China's Economic Supertrends - How China Is Changing from the Inside Out to Become the World's Next Economic Superpower - a small earthquake propelled my chair backwards. Perhaps it was an omen: Every author would like to shake the world with his or her latest work. We shall have to wait to see if the predictions in Inch's optimistic treatise come true, but it is difficult to argue with his scholarship.

He can draw on a very good pedigree when preaching his take on where the world's second-biggest economy is heading.

Inch is a Shanghai-based economist, academic and consultant who has been researching China's economic, demographic and political trends since 1992. He is a professor who has been living in China since 2003 and holds a master's degree in business administration from Canada's Richard Ivey School of Business. He also attended China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the University of Victoria in Canada and speaks fluent Japanese and Mandarin.