Shanghai and Beijing are often used as shorthand for Chinese growth. Yet as a 250-page report by HSBC Global Research argues, the country’s economic miracle has not been confined to the megacities. Rather, it is being driven by a broad range of China’s 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. If westerners haven’t heard of many of these, they soon will: HSBC predicts that by 2020 China will have no less than six provinces with an annual gross domestic product the size of Russia.
人們描述中國增長使常常用北京和上海作例子。然而正如匯豐全球研究部門(HSBC Global Research)一份長達250頁的報告所言,中國的經濟奇跡并不局限于幾座大城市,而是受到范圍廣闊的31個省、直轄市和自治區的推動。其中的許多省份或許還不為西方人所知,但他們很快就會有所耳聞:匯豐預計,到2020年,中國至少6個省份的年國內生產總值(GDP)規模將趕上俄羅斯。