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concept Updated 2026-08-06 Topics: Politics

Short-Term Demand Before Long-Term Reform

153.全球宏观和资本市场2026展望：大年之后，仍是大年？ extends the sequencing rule into 2026. Ricky repeats the short-term demand, medium-term reform, long-term technology framework and argues that demand support has become urgent because technology and reform stories cannot by themselves repair deflation, employment pressure, property wealth loss, and cautious household behavior.

Short-term demand before long-term reform is the central sequencing claim in Vol.115 全球宏观和资本市场2025展望：短期问题不解决，就没有中期和长期了. 大卫翁 and Ricky argue that China cannot rely on medium-term reform language or long-term New Quality Productive Forces / 新质生产力 alone while household, enterprise, and local-government balance sheets remain damaged.

The concept does not reject reform or productivity policy. It says those agendas need a working demand floor first: if residents preserve cash, local governments delay payments or preserve fiscal liquidity, and firms avoid investment because arrears and weak profits dominate, then future-oriented policy will not easily become present activity.

Key Claims

  • Short-term demand repair is treated as a precondition for medium-term reform and long-term productivity rather than as a distraction from them.
  • The damaged balance sheets are household, local-government, and enterprise balance sheets, so no single private sector actor can easily restart the cycle alone.
  • Central fiscal capacity becomes more important when residents, companies, and local governments are each cautious.
  • The concept links Household Balance-Sheet Repair to China Local Debt Resolution and China Fiscal Expansion Channels because private prudence can become aggregate weakness.
  • Long-term technological or productivity themes need actual demand, cash flow, and confidence before markets can price them durably.

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