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Swedbank Asia Analysis                                                      No. 13         16 March 2011




                      Europe and Sweden
             need a forward-looking China strategy
•   The National People’s Congress in Beijing has approved China’s
    development strategy for 2011-2015. It will be difficult to reach the goals of
    more balanced growth, less income inequality and higher quality in
    production within this timeframe, but there is little doubt about the direction.

•   China is probably growing faster than the administration would like. The
    goal is GDP growth of 8% this year and 7% over the entire five-year period.
    Our forecast is for GDP growth of nearly 9% in 2011 and 8.5% in 2012. This
    is an upward revision compared with our January forecast due to stronger
    growth outside the country. Compared with other analysts, we remain
    cautious, not least because the need for austerity is growing due to
    persistent inflation problems and imbalances in the real estate sector. It is
    also difficult to assess the effects of the catastrophe in Japan, China's most
    important trading partner.

•   China can pass the US within a few years to become the world's largest
    economy in terms of purchasing power parity. This is the result of more
    comprehensive pricing data, according to World Penn Tables. In dollar
    terms it will take longer, but if China can avoid major setbacks it could
    happen in the next decade.

•   This analysis argues that the EU and Sweden need a more forward-looking,
    holistic China strategy. There is every reason to more closely analyse the
    effects of China’s new development strategy and our approach to China in
    the years ahead.

                                                                                     Cecilia Hermansson
Contents                                                                  Page
China’s global importance is growing quickly                               2
China means more to Sweden and Europe                                      3
China has already impacted the world in various ways                       4
What does China’s new development strategy mean?                           5
Will the development strategy be realised?                                 7
How will China affect the world going forward?                             8
Economic outlook in the short term                                         9
US- and EU-Sino relations differ                                          10
Europe and Sweden lack a China strategy                                   11
What should a China strategy contain?                                     11




                  Ekonomiska sekretariatet, Swedbank AB (publ), 105 34 Stockholm, tfn 08-5859 1000
    E-post: ek.sekr@swedbank.se Internet: www.swedbank.se Ansvarig utgivare: Cecilia Hermansson, 08-5859 7720.
                  Magnus Alvesson, 08-5859 3341, Jörgen Kennemar, 08-5859 7730, ISSN 1103-4897
China’s global importance is growing quickly
China’s high rate of growth has been surprising experts since the
late 1970s, when the country opened up to the world. On average
GDP growth is nearly 10% a year. The economy is now twenty
times larger in real terms, and China has become the world's
largest goods exporter, steel producer and auto consumer. It is
also becoming a leader in many other areas.

GDP growth between 1978 and 2009 and average for the period (%)
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Though an economic, political and military superpower, China is                                                             China is a superpower
also an unstable dictatorship, and it isn't a full-scale market                                                             – but stands apart in
economy, either. The financial market, in particular, has room to                                                           several respects
develop and open up. Besides interest and exchange rates, many
prices are set administratively rather than by the market. The state
exerts a huge influence over every level of the business sector.

Within a few years China will become the world's largest economy,
according to the Conference Board. In terms of purchasing power
parity, the US share of global production is expected to fall from
about 18% last year to 15% by 2020, while China's share is rising
from 16% to 24%. This compares with 2% of the global economy
when the country opened up.

The Conference Board, which used the World Penn Tables and
carefully studied pricing data in a larger number of Chinese cities,
predicts that China will pass the US in purchasing power parity
within a couple of years.

Obviously there are risks along the way: overheating and various                                                            Growth never follows a
asset bubbles that could burst, political turbulence, etc. But in our                                                       smooth curve
main scenario China will continue to grow quickly regardless of the
administration's desire to slow the growth rate.




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Various countries/regions as a share of the global economy
between 2010 and 2020
                                        Share of global output
                                        2010            2020
Advanced economies                            49.8             39.4
US                                            18.3             14.8
EU-15                                         17.7             13.4
Japan                                          5.6              4.2
Other advanced econom ies                      8.2              7.0
Emerging markets                              50.2             60.6
China                                         16.3             24.1
India                                          5.3              8.0
Other Asia                                     5.1              5.7
Latin Am erica                                 8.0              7.7
Middle East                                    4.2              4.4
Africa                                         2.9              3.1
Central adn Eastern Europé                     4.1              3.7
Russia and form er Soviet Union                4.4              3.9

Source: The Conference Board with data based on the World Penn Tables (6.3)

According to the International Monetary Fund, IMF, which still uses
older data with less detailed pricing, it will take China longer to
pass the US, i.e., until the second half of the decade. In 2015 the
IMF predicts that China will represent 17% of the global economy,
compared with 13% last year, with the US shrinking to about 18%
from over 20%. When it reviews its data, the IMF will probably
have to account for the World Penn Tables and revise China’s
importance to the global economy upward.

In dollar terms it will take longer for China to become the world's           In dollar terms it will
largest economy. Today it is about 40% of the size of the US in               take longer for China
dollar terms, according to the IMF. This figure is expected to rise to        to pass the US
55% in 2015. This means that it wouldn't be until next decade that
China surpasses the US.

If you study GDP per capita, it will take even longer, i.e., several
decades, to pass other richer nations. But it could happen faster
than we think. Since 1990 alone, GDP per capita increased fivefold.


China means more to Sweden and Europe
The EU is China's most important export market, while China
correspondingly is the third largest for the EU. The EU still exports
more to the US and Switzerland. China is the EU's most important
import market, however, ahead of the US and Russia.

China is Sweden’s tenth largest export market and its ninth largest
import market.

Exports accounted for 3.1% of Sweden’s total exports last year,               After the US, China
while imports accounted for 4.1% of total imports. This means that            is Sweden’s most
China is now a more important market for Sweden than Japan,                   important non-
Russia and Poland, for example, and other than the US is the only             European export
non-European country among its top ten export markets. While                  market
imports from China have grown eightfold in value since 1998,
exports to China have tripled.




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Trade between China and Sweden in current prices
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Relations between the EU/Sweden and China shouldn’t be                                                                           Relations with China
measured strictly based on trade flows. You also have to consider                                                                involve more than just
other factors such as direct investments, which are now going in                                                                 trade
both directions, as exemplified by Geely’s purchase of Volvo. In
education, students are studying in each other's regions and
research alliances are increasing. Moreover, tourism has grown in
recent years.

China has already impacted the world in
various ways
In recent decades China’s entrance into the global economy has                                                                   Increased competition
held wages, consumer prices and interest rates in check in the                                                                   from China has meant
West. Several hundred million Chinese have joined the global                                                                     lower consumer prices
workforce, which has slowed wage growth, especially for low-cost                                                                 and interest rates
producers in the West. Other emerging countries have also been
impacted by competition from China. Thanks to cheap exports of
apparel, toys and shoes that have reached the US and Europe,
consumer prices have stayed low. Many other products have been
impacted by price competition. Low inflation has allowed central
banks to cut benchmark rates. Interest rates have also been kept
in check because China has invested its steadily growing currency
reserves in US and European sovereign debt.

At the same time commodity prices have risen substantially as                                                                    China’s impact on
China has pursued its goal to transition from a low income country                                                               commodity markets is
to a middle income country. Infrastructure is in need of                                                                         huge
improvement, and China has responded by spending at an
accelerating pace. Export industry, for its part, needs raw
materials, including energy and various types of metals. China’s
development has had a significant impact on a number of
commodity prices in recent decades.

China’s growth has also created greater savings imbalances in the                                                                Savings imbalances
global economy. Because of its large savings and trade surpluses,                                                                between China and the
China's currency reserves have grown substantially at the same                                                                   US remain a problem
time that the US current account deficit has risen as savings there
have failed to keep pace with consumption and investments. The




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imbalances are now increasing as the US current account deficit
again begins to grow after financial crisis.

US current account balance and China’s currency reserves
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Global stock markets have also risen as new business                                                                                              Every foreign company
opportunities in China have helped many companies to improve                                                                                      isn't making money in
their profits. At the same time not every company that has invested                                                                               China
in China has seen its earnings improve, due to strong competition
from other foreign companies as well as new Chinese businesses
that have been quick to copy their production methods.

China has become an increasingly important player in the global
economy, from sales to manufacturing and through its participation
in globalised financial and labour markets. Research and
development have been globalised lately as well, with China's
investments adding to the competition and creating new
opportunities.

China’s sovereign wealth funds have focused on funding strategic                                                                                  China has gradually
investments in companies, commodities and unique know-how.                                                                                        moved up the value
Through investments at home and abroad, China's export sector                                                                                     chain
has shifted from low to higher value production, which has meant
that competition for Western countries has increased.

What does China’s new development strategy
mean?
The 12th five-year plan has just been approved by the National
People's Congress in Beijing. It focuses on resolving a number of
fundamental problems in the economy, which requires a new
growth strategy. Back in as 2007 Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said,
“The biggest problem with China’s economy is that the growth is
unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”

The problems boil down to the fact that China’s economy is
unstable and risks overheating, unbalanced between urban and
rural as well as Eastern and Western China, uncoordinated
between the central and regional level as well as in the sense that




Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011                                                                                                                    5
growth has been led very little by consumption and much more so
by export investments, and, lastly, unsustainable in that income
distribution is askew and the environment is being damaged.

Components in China’s supply balance as a share of GDP
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The key is to achieve more balanced growth by levelling the                                                                The goal is to achieve
income gap, stimulating domestic consumption, giving poor                                                                  more balanced growth
households greater financial stability and improving the social                                                            with more quality
welfare system. This means that the growth strategy has to shift
from investments and exports to household consumption. Wages
have to rise and opportunities in rural areas have to improve.

Income distribution based on the so-called Gini coefficient
(0 means total income equality and 1 means total income inequality)

    0.45
                                                                            Mid 1980's
    0.40
                                                                            Mid 2000's
    0.35

    0.30

    0.25

    0.20

    0.15

    0.10

    0.05

    0.00
                 China    USA         India         UK       Japan      Germany Sweden


What is also needed is a greater focus on the environment and
climate, the quality of growth, technological innovations and value-
added production. China has decided to reduce its GDP growth
target to 7% and to continue to open up the country by
implementing reforms.




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Will the development strategy be realised?
In the five-year plan for 2006-2010 the GDP growth target was                       Central goals aren’t
7.5%, but GDP actually grew by an average of 11.3%. Even                            always the same as
though the government wants to slow down growth at a central                        regional goals
level, regional and local power brokers are resisting. GDP is likely
to grow faster than targeted in 2011-2015 as well. It could be
difficult, but not impossible, to reach the goal of 8% in 2011. It is
more likely that growth will be higher this year, which will require
an even bigger slowdown in 2012-2015, when the average is set at
7%.

There has been criticism that the development strategy until now                    Not easy to transition
has prioritised quantity over quality. The question is how quickly                  from quantity to quality
the opposite can gain traction, so that China puts more emphasis
on quality in its manufacturing. Raising value-added takes time. A
research budget at 2.2% of GDP until 2015 is one way to achieve
this goal.

Similarly, many are worried about the lack of a common set of                       Without democracy,
values worthy of the name that isn't based simply on economic                       what values is Chinese
progress. A big challenge will be to permit greater pluralisation and               society being built on?
democratisation at a local level within the current political system.
One goal is to reduce corruption, but this too was set earlier and
won’t be easy to meet. Expropriation of land by local governments
is the main reason for people’s demonstrations and uprisings.

The rapid increase in real estate prices is also a reason for the
increasing gap in wealth and income. The winners are those in the
upper middle class and the rich who were fortunate to build their
wealth early on, while students and recent urban immigrants are
the losers who are having a hard time affording housing.

Change in real estate prices in China’s major cities since year-and 2005 (%)

                0          10           20         30          40              50

      Beijing

      Tianjin

   Shenzhen

   Hangzhou

   Shenyang

  Chongqing

      Wuhan

 Guangzhou

     Nanjing


Source: Haver Economics




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Obviously there are major social costs to modernising as quickly                                                              The real estate sector
as China is now doing. When local construction contractors and                                                                generates large social
power brokers confiscate land – usually without compensating                                                                  costs when the country
residents – it breeds discontent, which could potentially threaten                                                            has to modernise
the current political system. The way to reduce this tension is to
charge property tax to squeeze local powers and reduce the
pressure on them to seek financing by selling land to construction
contractors.

There is plenty of reason to take the development strategy
seriously, but the challenges to achieving more balanced growth                                                                Wage increases could
with smaller income gaps and better environmental stewardship                                                                  raise inflation even
are daunting. One of the biggest issues will be to keep inflation in                                                           more
check while wages and prices increase at the same time that
growth has to slow, which is never an easy thing to do. The
direction has now been staked out, but it is likely to take
considerably longer – if it's at all possible in some cases – to meet
the goals of the strategy.

How will China affect the world going forward?
Shifting the development strategy to more consumer led growth                                                                 Higher prices and
with higher value-added in production could lead to higher prices                                                             interest rates in the
and interest rates outside China. This is because wages will have                                                             West?
to rise faster, which would mean greater price pressures and more
expensive exports to the rest of the world. As production becomes
more capital intensive (rather than labour intensive), China has to
retain more capital within the country to avoid downward pressure
on interest rates, as has happened in the West.

When wages and prices rise faster in China than the rest of the                                                               The yuan will
world, the Chinese currency, the yuan, appreciates in real terms. It                                                          appreciate, but mainly
is likely that China to some extent will accept a faster nominal                                                              in real terms
appreciation, which would ease inflation pressures, although real
appreciation will be the main focus.

Nominal and real exchange rates and spot prices vs. US dollar
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            115                                                                                8 .0 0
            110                                                                                7 .7 5
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    Index




            105                                                                                7 .5 0
            100                                                                                7 .2 5
             95                                                                                7 .0 0
             90                                                                                6 .7 5
             85        N o m in a l e f f e c t iv e e x c h a n g e r a t e                   6 .5 0
             80                                                                                6 .2 5
                  96     98       00       02      04       06      08         10
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Competition in knowledge-based economies will increase as a
result of China’s strategy. It will also mean greater opportunities for
multinationals to outsource production to China. Less value-added
products can be moved farther west in China, where wages are
lower than along the coast, and to other emerging countries such
as Vietnam and Bangladesh.

To date China’s consumer and service markets have not been the            The consumer and
main reason for trade and investment, but this will change as             service markets will
millions of Chinese see their incomes grow in the years ahead. At         increase in importance
the same time competition is increasing from domestic companies
that in many cases better understand their customers’ needs.
Adapting products – both goods and services – to customers and
being innovative enough to create new products will be important
to players in the market. Foreign companies could benefit
competitively from their better understanding of environmental
thinking, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR),
all of which are having an increasing impact on demand.

Moreover, China continues to increase its investments abroad,             The Chinese business
especially in Africa, where the emphasis is on commodities. The           model is difficult to
question is still China’s business model. Often there are factors         understand
involved that go beyond the purely economic, whether it is
maximising production, obtaining access to raw materials and land,
obtaining technological and commercial expertise, or securing
access to foreign markets. There is a more even exchange when
China invests abroad, but outsiders can still expect a lack of
openness in the future, which will continue to complicate
relationships between the decentralised, multifaceted private
business sector in the West and more centralised state-run China.

Economic outlook in the short-term
Last year GDP growth fell between the first and the last quarter.
During the first half of 2010 growth was 11.1% on an annual basis
and during the second half it was 9.7%. As a result, GDP growth
was 10.3%, compared with our January estimate of 10.1%.

In January we predicted that China’s GDP growth would slow to             Lower growth in the
8.5% in 2011 and 8.1% in 2012. The main reasons for this were             rest of the world and
slower growth in the rest of the world and economic austerity             austerity measures will
policies in China to reduce the risk of overheating.                      slow growth compared
                                                                          with 2010
These arguments still hold, but slightly faster growth in the US is
boosting activity in China as well, which increases the need for
austerity at home but doesn't always have the desired effect on
growth. Faster Chinese growth at the end of last year is pushing
growth higher in 2011, so there is good reason to expect slightly
stronger growth than in the January forecast.

On the other hand, Japan's catastrophic situation will reduce             Japan is an important
growth globally for a while, until the recovery eventually leads to       trading partner for
higher growth again. Japan is China’s most important trading              China
partner, accounting for 13 percent of China's imports last year.
Chinese manufacturers could suffer a setback when input goods
produced in Japan are not available. It could also mean less




Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011                                             9
activity in consumer markets when shortages of Japanese capital
goods start to appear. After a while companies will switch to other
suppliers, and the effects will subside.

Leading indicators in China currently point to a slightly calmer            Negative real
growth rate. Real interest rates are now negative, which raises             interest rates
expectations of higher inflation and increases the risk that asset          create imbalances
bubbles in the real estate market will burst. Attempts to mitigate
price increases have not taken hold, so we can expect even tighter
administrative controls in 2011.

Investments have driven growth in recent years, but as the impact           The rate of investment
of stimulus measures fades and refinancing costs rise, the rate of          is beginning to slow …
investment will decline. The appreciation of the yuan, especially in
real terms, is also making conditions tougher for exporters. In
February a trade deficit was reported. Imports increased by 19.4%
at an annual rate, while exports rose only 2.4%.

The rate of consumption instead increases as wages rise, but at             … while the rate of
the same time is held back by higher inflation, which exceeds 4%            consumption is rising
according to official statistics but is even higher for ordinary
people, since energy and food have risen even more and account
for larger share of their spending. We expect the real estate sector
to gradually contribute less to growth as authorities try to lessen
the risk of overheating

In summary, we expect China’s GDP to grow by 8.8% this year
and 8.4% next year, which is an upward revision of 0.3 percentage
points for both years.

There is a risk that authorities will not succeed in tightening             The risk is that
economic policy, which would raise the prospects of both growth             austerity will have
and inflation. For one thing, higher cash requirements and                  little impact
benchmark interest rates rarely stop state companies from
investing. Secondly, consumption can rise faster when wages
improve. In a scenario where lending rates remain high, bad loans
will increase as well, which would create the need to recapitalise
the banking system in the medium term. The lending rate has
slowed lately, however, but with negative real interest rates there
is risk of another upswing.

US- and EU-Sino relations differ
The relationship between the US and China is often debated,
especially by the U.S. Congress and various think tanks. There is
much less discussion, in contrast, about the relationship between
the EU and China.

After all is said and done the EU is China’s most important export          The EU is seen as
market. The region takes a backseat, however, when the rest of              a lightweight and
Asia, America and Africa are more important to China's interests.           fractured when it
China regards the EU as an economic rather than a political union,          comes to foreign policy
which makes it hard to find right spokespeople and access to the
organisation. The EU is split based on national interests and
therefore carries little weight when it comes to foreign policy. It is
easy for China to play EU member states against each other and




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enter into bilateral agreements, which also happens to be in
China’s interest.

The EU has taken a hands-off approach on several fronts.
Although it too is affected, the EU is playing fairly little role in the
discussions on currency policies between the US and China.
Considering the EU's position on the environment, this is an issue
it could pursue more aggressively with China.

There is also the question of how China will be integrated into the
global economy. Will it be with the current world order, with the US
in the driver’s seat, or with a world order more suited to China’s
growing importance? This is also an area where the EU should
have a say.

The EU seems to have its hands full with its own agenda, i.e., the         The EU is busy with its
debt crisis in the euro zone, including the competitive disparity          internal agenda
between countries, expansion and the Lisbon Strategy. It was only
recently that the EU appointed a foreign policy spokesman in the
person of Catherine Ashton, but it doesn’t seem that she has a
mandate yet to more aggressively address the relationship with
China.

Europe and Sweden lack a China strategy
Europe and Sweden are lacking a China strategy. The last one               The EU's China
formulated in 2006. Since then it seems like Europe has turned             strategy is five years
inward and lost ground strategically compared with the rest of the         old
world. The EU runs the risk of failing to keep pace with China’s
rapid development.

To date the EU and Sweden have focused on aid: transferring
values on human rights, the environment and social development.
These are important areas, but a more comprehensive strategy is
needed based on China’s development going forward and how the
rest of the world is affected according to our reasoning above.

What should a China strategy contain?
A forward looking strategy has to understand China’s new                   It is important that the
development strategy and how it could affect the rest of the world,        strategy is both
including the financial, labour, commodity and product markets. It         forward looking and
has to be holistic, based not only on the macro economy but also           holistic
other areas such as political science, sociology, psychology,
technology and natural science.

An important question is how China is going to implement the
development strategy it has adopted when it lacks the tools at a
central level to change conditions regionally and at the micro level.
One example is China’s difficulties in relieving the overheated
property market, which should interest the EU considering the risks
to the global economy.

What is happening with China’s activities in Eastern Europe, a             What is driving China
market it has shown great interest in? It has also shown increasing        to invest in Europe
interest in financing the budget deficits in the PIIGS countries,          and Africa?




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which should help it diversify away from investments in US
                 treasuries and counteract the euro's depreciation and declines in
                 the important European export market, but could also have other,
                 more political effects in the longer term. The EU has tried to work
                 with China on Africa, but without seriously analysing China’s
                 motivation and approach.

                 A more fundamental question is whether the current world order                                          Should the world order
                 with the US in the driver’s seat has to change as China (as well as                                     be adapted more to
                 India and other emerging countries) gain ground, and what role                                          China and other
                 Europe wants to play in its development?                                                                emerging countries?

                 How will the new leadership (probably Xi and Li) that takes over
                 within a few years change China? When it is the world's largest
                 economy, not only in purchasing power but also in dollar terms,
                 which will happen within two decades, will power shift to where the
                 monetary resources are.

                 Last year the EU's Commissioner for Industry and
                 Entrepreneurship, Antonio Tajani, wanted to limit China’s
                 European investments and reduce opportunities for deals like
                 Geely’s acquisition of Volvo Cars. There is a risk that the EU could
                 adopt a more protectionist stance that would hardly benefit Europe.

                 What we need instead is an analysis of what Europe can do best to
                 promote trade and investment with China. The key is to understand
                 the playing field and promote fair competition.

                 China is investing in European technology, but this could also
                 result in production being shut down and research and
                 development moved to China. The strategy therefore has to
                 include China's knowledge explosion. How can we benefit from the
                 increased competition from China with regard to research and
                 development?

                                                                                       Cecilia Hermansson




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Asia Analysis, No. 13, 16 March 2011

  • 1. Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 16 March 2011 Europe and Sweden need a forward-looking China strategy • The National People’s Congress in Beijing has approved China’s development strategy for 2011-2015. It will be difficult to reach the goals of more balanced growth, less income inequality and higher quality in production within this timeframe, but there is little doubt about the direction. • China is probably growing faster than the administration would like. The goal is GDP growth of 8% this year and 7% over the entire five-year period. Our forecast is for GDP growth of nearly 9% in 2011 and 8.5% in 2012. This is an upward revision compared with our January forecast due to stronger growth outside the country. Compared with other analysts, we remain cautious, not least because the need for austerity is growing due to persistent inflation problems and imbalances in the real estate sector. It is also difficult to assess the effects of the catastrophe in Japan, China's most important trading partner. • China can pass the US within a few years to become the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. This is the result of more comprehensive pricing data, according to World Penn Tables. In dollar terms it will take longer, but if China can avoid major setbacks it could happen in the next decade. • This analysis argues that the EU and Sweden need a more forward-looking, holistic China strategy. There is every reason to more closely analyse the effects of China’s new development strategy and our approach to China in the years ahead. Cecilia Hermansson Contents Page China’s global importance is growing quickly 2 China means more to Sweden and Europe 3 China has already impacted the world in various ways 4 What does China’s new development strategy mean? 5 Will the development strategy be realised? 7 How will China affect the world going forward? 8 Economic outlook in the short term 9 US- and EU-Sino relations differ 10 Europe and Sweden lack a China strategy 11 What should a China strategy contain? 11 Ekonomiska sekretariatet, Swedbank AB (publ), 105 34 Stockholm, tfn 08-5859 1000 E-post: ek.sekr@swedbank.se Internet: www.swedbank.se Ansvarig utgivare: Cecilia Hermansson, 08-5859 7720. Magnus Alvesson, 08-5859 3341, Jörgen Kennemar, 08-5859 7730, ISSN 1103-4897
  • 2. China’s global importance is growing quickly China’s high rate of growth has been surprising experts since the late 1970s, when the country opened up to the world. On average GDP growth is nearly 10% a year. The economy is now twenty times larger in real terms, and China has become the world's largest goods exporter, steel producer and auto consumer. It is also becoming a leader in many other areas. GDP growth between 1978 and 2009 and average for the period (%) 2750 16 2500 A n n u a l G D P g ro w th (% ) 15 2250 14 2000 13 1750 12 M e a n g ro w th 1500 1 9 7 9 -2 0 0 9 (% ) 11 Percent 1250 10 Index 1000 9 750 8 500 7 250 6 0 5 G D P le v e l -2 5 0 4 -5 0 0 3 80 85 90 95 00 05 S o u r c e : R e u t e r s E c o W in Though an economic, political and military superpower, China is China is a superpower also an unstable dictatorship, and it isn't a full-scale market – but stands apart in economy, either. The financial market, in particular, has room to several respects develop and open up. Besides interest and exchange rates, many prices are set administratively rather than by the market. The state exerts a huge influence over every level of the business sector. Within a few years China will become the world's largest economy, according to the Conference Board. In terms of purchasing power parity, the US share of global production is expected to fall from about 18% last year to 15% by 2020, while China's share is rising from 16% to 24%. This compares with 2% of the global economy when the country opened up. The Conference Board, which used the World Penn Tables and carefully studied pricing data in a larger number of Chinese cities, predicts that China will pass the US in purchasing power parity within a couple of years. Obviously there are risks along the way: overheating and various Growth never follows a asset bubbles that could burst, political turbulence, etc. But in our smooth curve main scenario China will continue to grow quickly regardless of the administration's desire to slow the growth rate. 2 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011
  • 3. Various countries/regions as a share of the global economy between 2010 and 2020 Share of global output 2010 2020 Advanced economies 49.8 39.4 US 18.3 14.8 EU-15 17.7 13.4 Japan 5.6 4.2 Other advanced econom ies 8.2 7.0 Emerging markets 50.2 60.6 China 16.3 24.1 India 5.3 8.0 Other Asia 5.1 5.7 Latin Am erica 8.0 7.7 Middle East 4.2 4.4 Africa 2.9 3.1 Central adn Eastern Europé 4.1 3.7 Russia and form er Soviet Union 4.4 3.9 Source: The Conference Board with data based on the World Penn Tables (6.3) According to the International Monetary Fund, IMF, which still uses older data with less detailed pricing, it will take China longer to pass the US, i.e., until the second half of the decade. In 2015 the IMF predicts that China will represent 17% of the global economy, compared with 13% last year, with the US shrinking to about 18% from over 20%. When it reviews its data, the IMF will probably have to account for the World Penn Tables and revise China’s importance to the global economy upward. In dollar terms it will take longer for China to become the world's In dollar terms it will largest economy. Today it is about 40% of the size of the US in take longer for China dollar terms, according to the IMF. This figure is expected to rise to to pass the US 55% in 2015. This means that it wouldn't be until next decade that China surpasses the US. If you study GDP per capita, it will take even longer, i.e., several decades, to pass other richer nations. But it could happen faster than we think. Since 1990 alone, GDP per capita increased fivefold. China means more to Sweden and Europe The EU is China's most important export market, while China correspondingly is the third largest for the EU. The EU still exports more to the US and Switzerland. China is the EU's most important import market, however, ahead of the US and Russia. China is Sweden’s tenth largest export market and its ninth largest import market. Exports accounted for 3.1% of Sweden’s total exports last year, After the US, China while imports accounted for 4.1% of total imports. This means that is Sweden’s most China is now a more important market for Sweden than Japan, important non- Russia and Poland, for example, and other than the US is the only European export non-European country among its top ten export markets. While market imports from China have grown eightfold in value since 1998, exports to China have tripled. Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011 3
  • 4. Trade between China and Sweden in current prices 900 800 Im p o rts fro m C h in a 700 600 Index 1998 = 100 500 400 E x p o rts 300 t ill C h in a 200 100 T o ta l im p o r t s T o ta l e x p o rts 0 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 S o u r c e : R e u t e r s E c o W in Relations between the EU/Sweden and China shouldn’t be Relations with China measured strictly based on trade flows. You also have to consider involve more than just other factors such as direct investments, which are now going in trade both directions, as exemplified by Geely’s purchase of Volvo. In education, students are studying in each other's regions and research alliances are increasing. Moreover, tourism has grown in recent years. China has already impacted the world in various ways In recent decades China’s entrance into the global economy has Increased competition held wages, consumer prices and interest rates in check in the from China has meant West. Several hundred million Chinese have joined the global lower consumer prices workforce, which has slowed wage growth, especially for low-cost and interest rates producers in the West. Other emerging countries have also been impacted by competition from China. Thanks to cheap exports of apparel, toys and shoes that have reached the US and Europe, consumer prices have stayed low. Many other products have been impacted by price competition. Low inflation has allowed central banks to cut benchmark rates. Interest rates have also been kept in check because China has invested its steadily growing currency reserves in US and European sovereign debt. At the same time commodity prices have risen substantially as China’s impact on China has pursued its goal to transition from a low income country commodity markets is to a middle income country. Infrastructure is in need of huge improvement, and China has responded by spending at an accelerating pace. Export industry, for its part, needs raw materials, including energy and various types of metals. China’s development has had a significant impact on a number of commodity prices in recent decades. China’s growth has also created greater savings imbalances in the Savings imbalances global economy. Because of its large savings and trade surpluses, between China and the China's currency reserves have grown substantially at the same US remain a problem time that the US current account deficit has risen as savings there have failed to keep pace with consumption and investments. The 4 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011
  • 5. imbalances are now increasing as the US current account deficit again begins to grow after financial crisis. US current account balance and China’s currency reserves 4 .0 100 3 .5 0 3 .0 -1 0 0 2 .5 -2 0 0 USD (thousand billions) 2 .0 -3 0 0 USD (billions) 1 .5 -4 0 0 U S c u rre n t a c c o u n t 1 .0 (rh s ) -5 0 0 0 .5 -6 0 0 0 .0 -7 0 0 -0 .5 C h i n a 's c u r r e n c y -8 0 0 r e s e r v e s ( lh s ) -1 .0 -9 0 0 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 S o u r c e : R e u t e r s E c o W in Global stock markets have also risen as new business Every foreign company opportunities in China have helped many companies to improve isn't making money in their profits. At the same time not every company that has invested China in China has seen its earnings improve, due to strong competition from other foreign companies as well as new Chinese businesses that have been quick to copy their production methods. China has become an increasingly important player in the global economy, from sales to manufacturing and through its participation in globalised financial and labour markets. Research and development have been globalised lately as well, with China's investments adding to the competition and creating new opportunities. China’s sovereign wealth funds have focused on funding strategic China has gradually investments in companies, commodities and unique know-how. moved up the value Through investments at home and abroad, China's export sector chain has shifted from low to higher value production, which has meant that competition for Western countries has increased. What does China’s new development strategy mean? The 12th five-year plan has just been approved by the National People's Congress in Beijing. It focuses on resolving a number of fundamental problems in the economy, which requires a new growth strategy. Back in as 2007 Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said, “The biggest problem with China’s economy is that the growth is unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.” The problems boil down to the fact that China’s economy is unstable and risks overheating, unbalanced between urban and rural as well as Eastern and Western China, uncoordinated between the central and regional level as well as in the sense that Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011 5
  • 6. growth has been led very little by consumption and much more so by export investments, and, lastly, unsustainable in that income distribution is askew and the environment is being damaged. Components in China’s supply balance as a share of GDP 0 .8 0 .7 0 .6 P riv a te C o n s u m p tio n 0 .5 0 .4 Share In v e s tm e n ts 0 .3 0 .2 P u b lic C o n s u m p tio n 0 .1 0 .0 E x p o rts - 0 .1 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 S o u rc e : R e u te rs E c o W in The key is to achieve more balanced growth by levelling the The goal is to achieve income gap, stimulating domestic consumption, giving poor more balanced growth households greater financial stability and improving the social with more quality welfare system. This means that the growth strategy has to shift from investments and exports to household consumption. Wages have to rise and opportunities in rural areas have to improve. Income distribution based on the so-called Gini coefficient (0 means total income equality and 1 means total income inequality) 0.45 Mid 1980's 0.40 Mid 2000's 0.35 0.30 0.25 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.05 0.00 China USA India UK Japan Germany Sweden What is also needed is a greater focus on the environment and climate, the quality of growth, technological innovations and value- added production. China has decided to reduce its GDP growth target to 7% and to continue to open up the country by implementing reforms. 6 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011
  • 7. Will the development strategy be realised? In the five-year plan for 2006-2010 the GDP growth target was Central goals aren’t 7.5%, but GDP actually grew by an average of 11.3%. Even always the same as though the government wants to slow down growth at a central regional goals level, regional and local power brokers are resisting. GDP is likely to grow faster than targeted in 2011-2015 as well. It could be difficult, but not impossible, to reach the goal of 8% in 2011. It is more likely that growth will be higher this year, which will require an even bigger slowdown in 2012-2015, when the average is set at 7%. There has been criticism that the development strategy until now Not easy to transition has prioritised quantity over quality. The question is how quickly from quantity to quality the opposite can gain traction, so that China puts more emphasis on quality in its manufacturing. Raising value-added takes time. A research budget at 2.2% of GDP until 2015 is one way to achieve this goal. Similarly, many are worried about the lack of a common set of Without democracy, values worthy of the name that isn't based simply on economic what values is Chinese progress. A big challenge will be to permit greater pluralisation and society being built on? democratisation at a local level within the current political system. One goal is to reduce corruption, but this too was set earlier and won’t be easy to meet. Expropriation of land by local governments is the main reason for people’s demonstrations and uprisings. The rapid increase in real estate prices is also a reason for the increasing gap in wealth and income. The winners are those in the upper middle class and the rich who were fortunate to build their wealth early on, while students and recent urban immigrants are the losers who are having a hard time affording housing. Change in real estate prices in China’s major cities since year-and 2005 (%) 0 10 20 30 40 50 Beijing Tianjin Shenzhen Hangzhou Shenyang Chongqing Wuhan Guangzhou Nanjing Source: Haver Economics Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011 7
  • 8. Obviously there are major social costs to modernising as quickly The real estate sector as China is now doing. When local construction contractors and generates large social power brokers confiscate land – usually without compensating costs when the country residents – it breeds discontent, which could potentially threaten has to modernise the current political system. The way to reduce this tension is to charge property tax to squeeze local powers and reduce the pressure on them to seek financing by selling land to construction contractors. There is plenty of reason to take the development strategy seriously, but the challenges to achieving more balanced growth Wage increases could with smaller income gaps and better environmental stewardship raise inflation even are daunting. One of the biggest issues will be to keep inflation in more check while wages and prices increase at the same time that growth has to slow, which is never an easy thing to do. The direction has now been staked out, but it is likely to take considerably longer – if it's at all possible in some cases – to meet the goals of the strategy. How will China affect the world going forward? Shifting the development strategy to more consumer led growth Higher prices and with higher value-added in production could lead to higher prices interest rates in the and interest rates outside China. This is because wages will have West? to rise faster, which would mean greater price pressures and more expensive exports to the rest of the world. As production becomes more capital intensive (rather than labour intensive), China has to retain more capital within the country to avoid downward pressure on interest rates, as has happened in the West. When wages and prices rise faster in China than the rest of the The yuan will world, the Chinese currency, the yuan, appreciates in real terms. It appreciate, but mainly is likely that China to some extent will accept a faster nominal in real terms appreciation, which would ease inflation pressures, although real appreciation will be the main focus. Nominal and real exchange rates and spot prices vs. US dollar 130 8 .7 5 R e a l e f f e c t iv e e x c h a n g e r a t e 125 8 .5 0 U S D /C N Y 120 8 .2 5 115 8 .0 0 110 7 .7 5 USD/CNY Index 105 7 .5 0 100 7 .2 5 95 7 .0 0 90 6 .7 5 85 N o m in a l e f f e c t iv e e x c h a n g e r a t e 6 .5 0 80 6 .2 5 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 S o u r c e : R e u t e r s E c o W in 8 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011
  • 9. Competition in knowledge-based economies will increase as a result of China’s strategy. It will also mean greater opportunities for multinationals to outsource production to China. Less value-added products can be moved farther west in China, where wages are lower than along the coast, and to other emerging countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh. To date China’s consumer and service markets have not been the The consumer and main reason for trade and investment, but this will change as service markets will millions of Chinese see their incomes grow in the years ahead. At increase in importance the same time competition is increasing from domestic companies that in many cases better understand their customers’ needs. Adapting products – both goods and services – to customers and being innovative enough to create new products will be important to players in the market. Foreign companies could benefit competitively from their better understanding of environmental thinking, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), all of which are having an increasing impact on demand. Moreover, China continues to increase its investments abroad, The Chinese business especially in Africa, where the emphasis is on commodities. The model is difficult to question is still China’s business model. Often there are factors understand involved that go beyond the purely economic, whether it is maximising production, obtaining access to raw materials and land, obtaining technological and commercial expertise, or securing access to foreign markets. There is a more even exchange when China invests abroad, but outsiders can still expect a lack of openness in the future, which will continue to complicate relationships between the decentralised, multifaceted private business sector in the West and more centralised state-run China. Economic outlook in the short-term Last year GDP growth fell between the first and the last quarter. During the first half of 2010 growth was 11.1% on an annual basis and during the second half it was 9.7%. As a result, GDP growth was 10.3%, compared with our January estimate of 10.1%. In January we predicted that China’s GDP growth would slow to Lower growth in the 8.5% in 2011 and 8.1% in 2012. The main reasons for this were rest of the world and slower growth in the rest of the world and economic austerity austerity measures will policies in China to reduce the risk of overheating. slow growth compared with 2010 These arguments still hold, but slightly faster growth in the US is boosting activity in China as well, which increases the need for austerity at home but doesn't always have the desired effect on growth. Faster Chinese growth at the end of last year is pushing growth higher in 2011, so there is good reason to expect slightly stronger growth than in the January forecast. On the other hand, Japan's catastrophic situation will reduce Japan is an important growth globally for a while, until the recovery eventually leads to trading partner for higher growth again. Japan is China’s most important trading China partner, accounting for 13 percent of China's imports last year. Chinese manufacturers could suffer a setback when input goods produced in Japan are not available. It could also mean less Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011 9
  • 10. activity in consumer markets when shortages of Japanese capital goods start to appear. After a while companies will switch to other suppliers, and the effects will subside. Leading indicators in China currently point to a slightly calmer Negative real growth rate. Real interest rates are now negative, which raises interest rates expectations of higher inflation and increases the risk that asset create imbalances bubbles in the real estate market will burst. Attempts to mitigate price increases have not taken hold, so we can expect even tighter administrative controls in 2011. Investments have driven growth in recent years, but as the impact The rate of investment of stimulus measures fades and refinancing costs rise, the rate of is beginning to slow … investment will decline. The appreciation of the yuan, especially in real terms, is also making conditions tougher for exporters. In February a trade deficit was reported. Imports increased by 19.4% at an annual rate, while exports rose only 2.4%. The rate of consumption instead increases as wages rise, but at … while the rate of the same time is held back by higher inflation, which exceeds 4% consumption is rising according to official statistics but is even higher for ordinary people, since energy and food have risen even more and account for larger share of their spending. We expect the real estate sector to gradually contribute less to growth as authorities try to lessen the risk of overheating In summary, we expect China’s GDP to grow by 8.8% this year and 8.4% next year, which is an upward revision of 0.3 percentage points for both years. There is a risk that authorities will not succeed in tightening The risk is that economic policy, which would raise the prospects of both growth austerity will have and inflation. For one thing, higher cash requirements and little impact benchmark interest rates rarely stop state companies from investing. Secondly, consumption can rise faster when wages improve. In a scenario where lending rates remain high, bad loans will increase as well, which would create the need to recapitalise the banking system in the medium term. The lending rate has slowed lately, however, but with negative real interest rates there is risk of another upswing. US- and EU-Sino relations differ The relationship between the US and China is often debated, especially by the U.S. Congress and various think tanks. There is much less discussion, in contrast, about the relationship between the EU and China. After all is said and done the EU is China’s most important export The EU is seen as market. The region takes a backseat, however, when the rest of a lightweight and Asia, America and Africa are more important to China's interests. fractured when it China regards the EU as an economic rather than a political union, comes to foreign policy which makes it hard to find right spokespeople and access to the organisation. The EU is split based on national interests and therefore carries little weight when it comes to foreign policy. It is easy for China to play EU member states against each other and 10 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011
  • 11. enter into bilateral agreements, which also happens to be in China’s interest. The EU has taken a hands-off approach on several fronts. Although it too is affected, the EU is playing fairly little role in the discussions on currency policies between the US and China. Considering the EU's position on the environment, this is an issue it could pursue more aggressively with China. There is also the question of how China will be integrated into the global economy. Will it be with the current world order, with the US in the driver’s seat, or with a world order more suited to China’s growing importance? This is also an area where the EU should have a say. The EU seems to have its hands full with its own agenda, i.e., the The EU is busy with its debt crisis in the euro zone, including the competitive disparity internal agenda between countries, expansion and the Lisbon Strategy. It was only recently that the EU appointed a foreign policy spokesman in the person of Catherine Ashton, but it doesn’t seem that she has a mandate yet to more aggressively address the relationship with China. Europe and Sweden lack a China strategy Europe and Sweden are lacking a China strategy. The last one The EU's China formulated in 2006. Since then it seems like Europe has turned strategy is five years inward and lost ground strategically compared with the rest of the old world. The EU runs the risk of failing to keep pace with China’s rapid development. To date the EU and Sweden have focused on aid: transferring values on human rights, the environment and social development. These are important areas, but a more comprehensive strategy is needed based on China’s development going forward and how the rest of the world is affected according to our reasoning above. What should a China strategy contain? A forward looking strategy has to understand China’s new It is important that the development strategy and how it could affect the rest of the world, strategy is both including the financial, labour, commodity and product markets. It forward looking and has to be holistic, based not only on the macro economy but also holistic other areas such as political science, sociology, psychology, technology and natural science. An important question is how China is going to implement the development strategy it has adopted when it lacks the tools at a central level to change conditions regionally and at the micro level. One example is China’s difficulties in relieving the overheated property market, which should interest the EU considering the risks to the global economy. What is happening with China’s activities in Eastern Europe, a What is driving China market it has shown great interest in? It has also shown increasing to invest in Europe interest in financing the budget deficits in the PIIGS countries, and Africa? Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011 11
  • 12. which should help it diversify away from investments in US treasuries and counteract the euro's depreciation and declines in the important European export market, but could also have other, more political effects in the longer term. The EU has tried to work with China on Africa, but without seriously analysing China’s motivation and approach. A more fundamental question is whether the current world order Should the world order with the US in the driver’s seat has to change as China (as well as be adapted more to India and other emerging countries) gain ground, and what role China and other Europe wants to play in its development? emerging countries? How will the new leadership (probably Xi and Li) that takes over within a few years change China? When it is the world's largest economy, not only in purchasing power but also in dollar terms, which will happen within two decades, will power shift to where the monetary resources are. Last year the EU's Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, Antonio Tajani, wanted to limit China’s European investments and reduce opportunities for deals like Geely’s acquisition of Volvo Cars. There is a risk that the EU could adopt a more protectionist stance that would hardly benefit Europe. What we need instead is an analysis of what Europe can do best to promote trade and investment with China. The key is to understand the playing field and promote fair competition. China is investing in European technology, but this could also result in production being shut down and research and development moved to China. The strategy therefore has to include China's knowledge explosion. How can we benefit from the increased competition from China with regard to research and development? Cecilia Hermansson Ekonomiska sekretariatet 105 34 Stockholm Swedbank AsienAnalys ges ut som en service till våra kunder. Vi tror oss ha använt tfn 08-5859 1000 tillförlitliga källor and bearbetningsrutiner vid utarbetandet av analyser, som ek.sekr@swedbank.se redovisas in publikationen. Vi kan dock inte garantera analysernas riktighet eller www.swedbank.se fullständighet and kan inte ansvara för eventuell felaktighet eller brist in Ansvarig utgivare Cecilia Hermansson, 08-5859 7720 grundmaterialet eller bearbetningen därav. Läsarna uppmanas att basera eventuella (investerings-)beslut även på annat underlag. Varken Swedbank eller dess anställda Magnus Alvesson, 08-5859 3341 eller andra medarbetare skall kunna göras ansvariga för förlust eller skada, direkt Jörgen Kennemar, 08-5859 7730 eller indirekt, på grund av eventuella fel eller brister som redovisas in Swedbank ISSN 1103-4897 AsienAnalys. 12 Swedbank Asia Analysis No. 13 • 16 March 2011