7 October 2024
Morning Shot: Why consumers are no longer staking a thousand pieces of gold on one throw during China's Golden Week?
China’s Golden Week holiday is often seen as an important time of the year to gauge China’s domestic demand, including retail and box office sales, tourism and catering.
This has taken on extra significance this year, with economists and traders looking to see if President Xi Jinping’s latest stimulus blitz can reinvigorate the country’s downcast consumers.
So, how golden is this year’s Golden Week for the world’s second largest economy?
On this episode of Morning Shot, Zhou Hao, Chief Economist, Research Department, Guotai Junan International shares his insights.
Presented by: Emaad Akhtar & Ryan Huang
Produced & Edited by: Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)
Photo credits: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

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31 May 2023
Morning Shot: Will China's inroads into Central Asia fill the region's economic void?
Zhou Hao, Chief Economist, Research Department, Guotai Junan International joins the Breakfast Show for a deep dive into whether China's inroads into Central Asia will fill the economic void in the region, as the world’s second largest economy signs a staggering 54 agreements, 19 new cooperation mechanisms and platforms, and nine multilateral documents, including the Xi'an declaration, with the region in recent weeks.
Presented by: Ryan Huang
This podcast is produced and edited by Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)

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