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China's GDP will maintain a growth rate of about 8. 9 percent in 2012, said the annual economic blue book released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on December 7. Though the growth speed is lower than in 2011, it is still relatively high rate.
Chen Jiagui, Director of the CASS Economic Department, said the Chinese economy is stable with appropriate ups and downs. A growth rate of 8-9 percent is ideal to create a good macroeconomic environment for deepening the reform, controlling inflation, adjusting the economic structure and transforming the economic growth pattern.
The Chinese economy has slowed down in the last two years, arousing worries from home and abroad about the Chinese economy's expected hard landing. Such worries are obviously unnecessary and the Chinese economy will continue to make contributions to the world economic recovery.
According to the blue book, compared with 2011, the Chinese economy will face new challenges next year. China mainly faced pressure from rapid inflation in 2011, causing the task of curbing inflation to top the list of government priorities for macro-controls. But in 2012 when the economic growth will likely slow, China needs to both stabilize the economic growth speed and further curb inflation and strengthen macro-control efforts.
Chen said thanks to the efforts in 2011, the rapidly growing prices have been curbed to some extent, but the main factors causing rapid price rises have remained unchanged. Today, prices in China are affected by the relationship between supply and demand, as well as the rising costs. Of the total, the producer price index (PPI) is mainly influenced by the relationship between supply and demand, while the consumer price index (CPI) is influenced by the rising costs.
22.The Chinese economy has slowed down in the last few years, which is bad for the macroeconomic environment.
A、True
B、False
【正确答案】：B
【名师解析】:根据文章内容，中国经济增长速度在2012年预计将保持在8.9%左右，虽然比2011年有所下降，但仍然是一个相对较高的增长率。文章中提到，中国的经济是稳定的，并且适当的波动是有益的，8-9%的增长率是理想的，有助于创造一个良好的宏观经济环境，以深化改革、控制通货膨胀、调整经济结构和转变经济增长方式。此外，文章还指出，尽管中国经济增长在过去两年有所放缓，但这种担忧是不必要的，中国经济将继续为世界经济复苏做出贡献。
因此，题目中的说法"The Chinese economy has slowed down in the last few years, which is bad for the macroeconomic environment."是错误的。文章明确表示，尽管经济增速有所放缓，但这样的增长率对于创造一个良好的宏观经济环境是有利的，并且中国经济的放缓并不会导致宏观经济环境恶化。所以正确答案是B.False。
