BEIJING, January 22. /Corr. Alexey Selishev/. Even if in the next ten years the rate of growth of the Chinese economy will slow to 3-4%, young people will have ample opportunity to find work in the field of Internet technologies and new industries. As writes on Friday the newspaper “Caixin”, on Thursday in Davos, said the founder of one of the largest online retailers of Alibaba Jack MA.
“Many are concerned about how to slow down the pace of development of China’s economy. But I think that in this situation a chance”, says Jack MA.
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According to him, the concern of the representatives of traditional industries, primarily coal and oil. “And the youth should be happy, this is because of new economic trends”, – said the founder of Alibaba. “The slowdown in GDP growth will lead to the loss of jobs (in the traditional sectors of the economy), but we have new opportunities in the field of Internet and new sectors of the economy,” he said.
Earlier, the head of the State statistical Bureau of China Wang Baoan said, the growth rate of China’s GDP in 2015 was 6.9%, the lowest rate since 1990.
Thus, last year was no exception in the General trend of a slowdown in the Chinese economy. In 2010 the GDP growth rates were at the level of 10.4%, in 2011 – 9.2% and in 2012 of 7.8%. By the end of 2013, this figure had slowed to 7.7% and in 2014 to 7.4%.
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