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Could you explain “growing pains”?
My comments:
Children sometimes complain of pain in their joints and limbs. As they suffer no apparent illness, parents call this “growing pains”, telling the children that they are simply growing too fast.
Hence figuratively speaking, when an economy such as China’s grows at a very rapid pace, anomalies abound due to lack of regulations and lax enforcements of them, corruption and so forth.
Hence, it is unsurprising to hear top officials say what they say in the example from above.
In other words, foreign firms doing business in China sometimes have to share the consequences of China’s rapid economic growth, not just cornering markets and garnering profits.
In other words, no pain, no gain.
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本文僅代表作者本人觀(guān)點(diǎn)，與本網(wǎng)立場(chǎng)無(wú)關(guān)。歡迎大家討論學(xué)術(shù)問(wèn)題，尊重他人，禁止人身攻擊和發(fā)布一切違反國(guó)家現(xiàn)行法律法規(guī)的內(nèi)容。
About the author:
Zhang Xin（張欣） has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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