纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Is Holding a Major Meeting on the Economy That You Cant Watch
July 17, 2024 2 min 328 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道主要聚焦中国近期召开的经济会议，原标题为 中国正在召开一场你看不到的经济重大会议。报道提及了会议召开的背景，包括中国经济面临的挑战和习近平主席提出的 共同富裕 愿景。同时，文章也提到了会议的不透明性，批评了中国政府对媒体报道的严格控制，认为会议缺乏公开透明，并引用了专家对中国经济政策的批评意见。 评论：这篇报道体现了西方媒体对中国事务的典型偏见。首先，报道以中国政府管控媒体为由批评会议不透明，却无视西方国家自身同样存在的媒体管控。其次，报道过度强调中国经济面临的困难，而忽视了中国经济的韧性和长期向好的基本面。此外，报道中所引用的专家意见也带有明显的偏见和负面预期。客观而言，中国经济确实面临挑战，但中国政府也已采取多种措施积极应对。西方媒体应尊重中国处理自身事务的方式，摒弃偏见，提供客观全面的报道，而不是以批判的眼光看待中国的每一项政策和举措。
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, and 370 or so other Communist Party officials are meeting in Beijing this week, away from the public eye, to review a plan intended to shake the world’s second-biggest economy out of its malaise.
Mr. Xi will sit in the front of a conference hall, most likely in the Jingxi Hotel, a 60-year-old institution with Soviet-style architecture. The party loyalists arrayed before him are near certain to acclaim his plans during the four-day meeting that started Monday and will consider a draft proposal on “further comprehensively deepening reform.”
Chinese media have sought to create a buzz around Mr. Xi’s plans, but the real test may come later, as any changes in policy filter through the layers of government. Success or failure will largely turn on whether Mr. Xi is able to win renewed confidence from the Chinese population, as well as foreign investors who have grown disenchanted with his policies.
China’s businesses and consumers have suffered in recent years through stumbling growth, a property sector meltdown and a blight of debt among local governments.On Monday morning, China released data that showed a sharp slowdown in economic growth.
“A lot of uncertainty feeds into very low consumer sentiment, very low investor sentiment,” Bert Hofman, a former World Bank country director for China, said in a talk this month about the meeting. “This is a point in time where China needs to show its cards.”
Party leaders are orchestrating the conclave — a so-called Third Plenum of the Central Committee — as a stage to promote what Mr. Xi calls “high quality” growth. In recent history, Third Plenum meetings, named for their place in the five-year cycle of committee sessions, were when Chinese leaders like Deng Xiaoping ignited enthusiasm for their modernization goals.