The fact is, the China economy is growing handsomely and at a pace that still serves to impress even in the current depressed global economic environment. During the years of Chairman Mao, many economists considered China’s economy to be a wreck. Liberalization and economic rules over the last decade or so, though, has helped to create a dynamic economic engine that is really impressive.

Chinese national leaders have stated that the Chinese economy is still growing every month, and there’s little evidence to dispute that fact. Chinese appear to be ready to overtake Japan in terms of who the second-largest economy in the world will be. This is probably going to occur by the end of 2009.

Gross domestic product or GDP in China increased by 7. 1% in the first half of the year. This is quite impressive, given that every other national economy around the world was really hit hard when the economic downturn began to set in. Of the top 10 national economies, China’s is the only one to actually show an improvement in 2009.

Many economists and financial experts believe that the strength of the Chinese economy will lead the rest of the world’s markets out of the current slump. For China, it’s important that this occur, as there are several economies — especially that of the United States — that China needs in order to sell its services and manufactured goods.

Realizing this, both China and the United States have sought to work closely together in order to stabilize economic and strategic actions that will hopefully have the effect of improving and creating growth in the US sector. Americans are the largest consumers of Chinese goods, so it’s important to the Chinese government that this effect manifests itself soon.

Most experts would say that the fact of China seeking to be a responsible partner in helping to strengthen the world economy is a positive sign. The China economy also highlights how effective a government economic stimulus can work when executed with precision. Its $586 billion stimulus seems to have done wonders for the Chinese economy.

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