{"id":140129,"date":"2025-11-10T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140129"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:00:11","slug":"not-in-this-economy-why-guangdong-is-struggling-to-tempt-consumers-to-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140129","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not in this economy\u2019: why Guangdong is struggling to tempt consumers to spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn early November, China\u2019s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan (US$492 million) to offer discounts on a slew of products: from smartphones to snowboards.<br \/>\nGuangdong\u2019s scheme is the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to use consumption vouchers to boost domestic spending \u2013 a campaign that is key to China\u2019s efforts to shore up growth and rebalance its economy amid the ongoing US trade war.<br \/>\nBut on the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3331960\/not-economy-guangdongs-huge-subsidy-scheme-falls-flat-consumers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn early November, China\u2019s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan (US$492&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}