Passage 2
Zhangjiagang is a commercial hub of Jiangsu, the fastest-growing province in China. China has the most dynamic economy in the world today. Its boom radiates from Guangdong, its richest province, but it has spread as far west as Xingjiang, where foreign investors are searching for oil and other natural resources. It is creeping inland, from Jiangsu to the cities of Congqing and Wu-han, where businessmen from Hong Kong and Taiwan are starting to spend billions of dollars to build factories. And it has penetrated the northeast, where the city of Shengyan, long a moribund center of state industry, is bustling with new private business, from trading companies to prostitution. Back in Beijing, officials at China’s state council, or cabinet, are giddy with excite-ment-and exhaustion. “【We don’t have people, we don’t have time,” says one. “Things are moving too fast】.”
After a slowdown through 1990, China’s economy bounced back mightily, reaching a recent peak of 13 per cent growth last year. Now, some Western experts are predicting that China could become the world’s dominant economy early in the 21st century.
39.What do the phrases “dynamic economy” and “the world’s dominant economy” mean?
Dynamic economy means an economy full of energy and activity;"the world's dominant economy" means the world's major economic power.
