What is the most important thing state legislators need to know about China?
Fishman: China is growing at a dynamic pace. Behind this huge burst of economic activity is a demographic shift that’s moving people from the country to the city. This is allowing businesses to grow and attracting the attention of the world’s investors. China is also doing an outstanding job of educating its best workers. SL: China is growing at an incredible rate. Fishman: Its growth has been around 11.5 percent a year for the last few years. SL: Will it be able to sustain that growth? Fishman: You can never predict whether a country can sustain things over the short run. China has a lot of threats to its immediate progress. But the free market genie is out of the bottle, and even if it does have a setback in the short run, that will probably make it stronger in the long run by booting out all kinds of inefficiencies. Just like the U.S. economy, which has grown 30-fold in the last 100 years, China can go a long way. SL: What about all the changes the country is making in order to get
