中国比印度早十五年开始经济自由化，这使其经济增率长达到两位数，而这个时候印度的经济增长率仍然在 5%左右徘徊，而且随着中国经济的复合增长，已经使他和印度处于完全不同的经济发展梯队并且在一个更大的基数上持续更快增长。
China started its liberalization a decade and a half before India, hit double-digit growth when India was still hovering around 5%, and, with compound growth, has put itself in a totally different economic league from India, continuing to grow faster from a larger base.