Asian Development Bank economist Zhuang Jian says strong performance in the last two months of 2009 helped China's export surge.

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Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

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"Thanks to the continuous gains in new business, manufacturers accelerated production by additional hiring and more purchases, " HSBC's Chief China Economist Qu Hongbin wrote in a statement.

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In a book to be published in November, Wu Jinglian, China's most respected economist, notes that until a decade ago provincial branches of commercial banks borrowed funds directly from provincial offices of the central bank and lent them to local customers.

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"New export orders contracted after a temporary rebound in March, suggesting external demand for China's exporters remains weak, " said Qu Hongbin, China chief economist at HSBC in a statement.

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