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China's leaders are going to be hard-pressed to repeat the country's economic boom years, especially with eurozone problems threatening to cause more havoc
Short of achieving an economic miracle, there seems to be little that China's leaders can do to avoid 2012 being at least as disappointing as 2011.
Chinese leaders cannot simply pull rabbits out of hats
Rex Features
A further $582bn of government spending was announced, some of it immediate in the form of subsidies for purchases of washing machines, autos and other consumer goods and some longer-term for infrastructure investments.
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