到下一年年底，赤字变得非常巨大，导致中国国际收支余额（BOP）也由正转负，虽然中国经常项目仍保持3,000亿美元以上的盈余。
By the end of the next year, the deficit had grown so large that China’s overall balance of payments (BOP), too, turned negative, even as China’s current-account surplus remained above $300 billion.