Among the methods for analyzing China's economic trends, both demand analysis and supply analysis have advantages and disadvantages. The correct method is mainly using theories and methods of Marxist political economics analysis while drawing lessons from the reasonable theories and effective methods in Western economics. Although it has declined for five consecutive years, China's economy will not collapse, as the overall economic trend is going well and the economic growth has huge potential. The proximate causes of the economic downturn are oversupply and lack of effective supply, insufficient demand, weakness of investment, export and consumption, especially insufficient consumption demand resulted from huge income gap and low labor income. The deep-seated causes are imperfection of ownership system, distribution system, market system, economic management system, and so on. In addition to a series of important strategic policies implemented by the nation, such as the comprehensive deepening reform, expanding domestic demand, improving supply, and optimizing structures, China should also actively, steadily, and reasonably deepen the reform of the systems relevant with distribution to stabilize growth.
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