When will China achieve quality growth?
Even before the 2008 global financial crisis laid bare the limits of China's export-oriented growth model, the country's leaders were stressing the need for quality growth. As early as 2007, China argued that its economic growth had become "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable."
More than a decade later, how close is China to overcoming the "Four Uns"?
Significant progress has been achieved, particularly since 2013, when President Xi Jinping and his team articulated a comprehensive reform plan that would put China onto a path of inclusive, green, innovation-driven growth. Since then, China has taken major steps forward, especially in rooting out corruption, alleviating poverty and implementing supply-side structural reforms.