BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday urged China to speed up structural reform, as global pressure mounts on the world’s second-largest economy to shift to ‍a consumption-led growth model and rein in debt-driven investment and exports.

The manufacturing juggernaut has posted a $1 trillion trade surplus for the first time and is set to drive up to 40% of global growth in 2025. This has sparked criticism that China’s slowing economy relies on dominating a larger ‌share of global trade and flooding emerging markets ‌with cheap goods diverted from the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

“China’s large economic size and heightened global trade tensions make reliance on exports less viable for sustaining robust growth,” the IMF said in a press r

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