Even Native Chinese Speakers Aren't Sure What The 3rd Plenum Said About The 'Market'
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch
Early media reports suggested that the China's leaders wanted the markets to play a bigger role in the economy.
But Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Ting Lu warned that it was extremely unclear if they actually said anything new. From Lu's note:
Not so meaningful semantic change on the role of "market"
The communique changes the role of "Market Economy" from "??? (Jichuxing)" (used in the past 20 years) to "??? (juedingxing)". For native Chinese speakers like us with years of intensive training in Chinese (and we did well on the grueling GRE too), we found it very difficult to tell the real difference. Bloomberg translated " ??? (Jichuxing)" to "basic", but we think it could be translated to "fundamental (foundational)" or "essential" as well. Regarding "??? (juedingxing)", it could be translated to "deciding", "determining" or "decisive". We suspect the Chinese people won't interpret too much from this change.
No matter how you interpret it, it's clearly not a game-changer.
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