Abstract

China remains on track to grow in the third quarter of 2016 buoyed by service sector growth and fixed asset investment.

The China Economic Quarterly is a market outlook prepared on a quarterly basis by PwC to share the latest economic and policy updates. In this third quarter update, the overview of China's macro trends are followed by a summary of the main policy developments and hot topics of interest such as Xi Jinping's speech on the role of the Party in the management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), China's supply-side structural reform and pilot programme on SOE reform.

According to key economic data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics for the third quarter of 2016, China's GDP grew at the rate of 6.7%, an increase of 1.8% from the previous quarter, thanks to strong investment and expansionary monetary policies.