{"id":617970,"date":"2026-08-03T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/617970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:42:12","slug":"china-acknowledges-temperature-gap-between-tech-boom-and-traditional-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/617970\/","title":{"rendered":"China acknowledges \u2018temperature gap\u2019 between tech boom and traditional slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China\u2019s booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And while arguing that this divergence was not unique to China, the Qiushi Journal stressed that rapid technological advances must not leave ordinary citizens behind.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a commentary published on its website on Sunday, the journal conceded that there was an obvious \u201cgap in temperature\u201d in the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMacroeconomic data serves as the economy\u2019s \u2018thermometer\u2019, while micro-level experiences represent the public\u2019s \u2018feels-like temperature\u2019. Both are real,\u201d the article said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It asserted that such a gap was a long-standing challenge for major economies, noting that \u201cthe larger the economic scale, and the greater the number of market participants, the more frequently such a gap appears\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The commentary also said that the speed and scale of artificial intelligence adoption had further thrown such a gap into sharper relief, as China establishes itself in the vanguard of a global race to develop and deploy cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[291,1793,79,381,13947,260837,179,18,54085,19,17,213312,260835,30801,260836,258346,11830],"class_list":["post-617970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-communist-party","tag-economic-divide","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-green-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-politburo","tag-qiushi-journal","tag-rd","tag-real-estate-development","tag-traditional-industries","tag-wage-growth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117031164166248666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}