In any case, the holy grail in China could shift away from property development as the country's consumers demand a better life.
Many economists expect China to shift to a currency basket next year.
And discussions of how China can shift to cleaner sources of energy also are part of expanding environmental and energy-related talks that began earlier this year when Vice President Al Gore visited China, the officials said.
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China began to shift from an industrial-led society to a consumer-led society in 2007 and this continues.
China needs to shift to a more sustainable growth model, and adopting a new growth strategy will trigger a structural catch-up process in global investment and consumption.
It is struggling to shift China away from the current unsustainable model, where growth is propelled by vast investment and export-led manufacturing, towards one where domestic consumption plays a bigger role.
Low-end manufacturing is continuing to shift from China into countries like Malaysia, Vietnam and parts of India.
China is trying to shift its economy away from an investment-led model that delivers diminishing returns.
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Yet this is a period of ferment, of a generational shift in China.
And some experts see signs of a glacial shift in China's security strategy.
But the duties did prompt much of the production to shift from China to Vietnam, where the duties don't apply.
The long-awaited structural shift in China is now under way and may have been underappreciated, says Yiping Huang, an economist for Barclays Capital in Hong Kong.
Yet China's new policy shift may end up having a greater impact than the rocket-propelled diplomacy of four years ago.
In addition to focusing on education and clean energy, China is also seeking to shift from export-led growth to more domestic consumption supported by a growing service-sector economy.
The company has also revealed plans to shift some production outside China to counteract future tariffs.
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China policy makers are trying to shift their focus inward, away from being an export dependent economy.
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The past five years of U.S.-China economic relations illustrate this tectonic shift.
If the euro-zone's sovereign debt troubles continue to worsen and spillover to the wider financial system, then China's shipping outlook may shift again.
The weakening of currencies in South Korea and Singapore provided an opportunity to shift sourcing away from China, which had been the company's centralized manufacturing center.
China has benefited as foreign companies shift manufacturing to take advantage of its cheap workforce, and as a pick up in global growth boosts demand for its products, such as raw steel.
Cambodia is a major producer of clothing and shoes for Western buyers, and has benefited in recent years as rising wages in China have pushed some companies to shift orders to lower-cost countries.
Although economic growth has declined to its current level of 7.5 to 8.0, percent due to a slowing rate of growth in infrastructure spending by the government and relatively restrictive monetary policies, the China economy is undergoing a fundamental shift where domestic consumption is becoming one of the key drivers of the economy.
China has already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.
The emerging economies, led by Brazil, Russia, India and China, had demanded a 7% shift, but they are likely to be content with 5%.
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Great swathes of farmland in northern China devoted to growing wheat will over time shift to high-value crops, such as vegetables and fruit.
Economists have long argued that China needs to encourage more domestic consumption to shift its economy away from relying on government investment and exports for growth.
It does not represent a wholesale shift of production from developed economies to China.
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