Economic restructuring a model for the world

Since the global financial crisis broke out eight years ago China has contributed greatly to and played a dominant role in maintaining global growth, starting with its $586 billion package to stimulate the domestic economy in November 2008. Although China's contribution to global growth has decreased to about 30 percent now, based on various estimates, analysts say that after restructuring its economy, it will resume its major role in the global economy in the middle and long term.

China's year-on-year GDP growth dipped to 6.9 percent in 2015, the slowest in 25 years. In the first half of this year, it was 6.7 percent and the International Monetary Fund has forecast that in 2017, its economic growth could further drop to 6.2 percent.

While the global economic downturn is behind China's economic slowdown, the country's efforts to rebalance its economic structure to make it more dependent on consumption, services and high-tech industries and less reliant on resources and energy-consuming industries have also affected its growth momentum, say analysts.