事实上，若非中国在最近的衰退中表现出卓越的恢复力，世界GDP在2009年就不会只收缩0.1 % ， 而将下降1.3 % — —第二次世界大战结束以来最严重的全球经济活动萎缩。
Indeed, were it not for China’s resilience in the depths of the recent crisis, world GDP would not have contracted by 0.1% in 2009, but would have plunged by 1.3% – the sharpest decline in global activity of the post-World War II era.