The growth is mostly because they're selling a lot of exports. They've been building up domestic consumption, but it's still pretty weak. Almost all the growt

The growth is mostly because they're selling a lot of exports. They've been building up domestic consumption, but it's still pretty weak. Almost all the growth is from foreign money flowing in one way or another, and once money is in China, it tends to stay under Chinese control. Regardless of how the general economy does, the question is: who benefits? The answer is usually government officials, or people that have relationships with them. There's a general assumption here that anyone with money must be corrupt. While that's not exclusively true, it's certainly true enough to discourage entrepreneurship.