China Approves Massive Infrastructure Spending
BEIJING—China has approved an estimated $156 billion in new subways, highways and other infrastructure projects in recent days, giving markets a boost on Friday, even as economists are increasingly fretting that the country is behind the curve in responding to the economic slowdown.
The spending plans send a signal that the Chinese government has belatedly heeded risks from a slowing economy and has become increasing open to stimulus, economists said.
"China's central government finally took real actions to arrest the worsening slowdown," Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economist Lu Ting said in a note, but he added that the new plans come too late to arrest a further slowdown in the third quarter.
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