The World Ahead | China in 2025
China’s entrepreneurs must navigate stormy seas
They face challenges both domestic and foreign in 2025
|SHANGHAI
By Don Weinland, China business and finance editor, The Economist
All manner of consumer-electronic devices pass through Shenzhen’s markets. The southern Chinese city is at the centre of one of the world’s densest industrial clusters for electronics manufacturing. More recently some costly parts have been making their way through the markets—but these objects can only be manufactured overseas.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2025 under the headline “Innovation’s stormy seas”
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