So spoke the governor of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, in September 2005 at a meeting of the World Bank in Washington. Zhou was talking specifically about monetary reform, and the pressure that China is under from the international community to open up its markets faster; but his words have a much broader application.
Of course, China is still the fastestgrowing economy in the world. China is going places, and everybody knows it. But being able to build a skyscraper in six months does not mean you can build an efficient market system overnight.
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