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The Grant Thornton Global Dynamism Index (GDI) is an annual research project conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It assesses the business growth environments of 60 of the largest economies in the world, ranking them on 22 indicators of dynamism across five categories. Dynamism refers to the changes in an economy over the past 12 months which are likely to lead to a faster future rate of growth.

For more information go to www.gti.org/gdi/2013 or access the results directly at www.globaldynamismindex.com

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The Grant Thornton Global Dynamism Index (GDI) is an annual research project conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It assesses the business growth environments of 60 of the largest economies in the world, ranking them on 22 indicators of dynamism across five categories. Dynamism refers to the changes in an economy over the past 12 months which are likely to lead to a faster future rate of growth.

For more information go to www.gti.org/gdi/2013 or access the results directly at www.globaldynamismindex.com

China ranks 3 in the Grant Thornton GDI 2013, climbing from 20 this time last year. This makes the economy the second biggest climber behind only the Philippines (which rose 25 places). The improvement in China is largely driven by its science & technology ranking, where it climbed 8 places to rank 14 on the back of strong IT and R&D spending growth. It also ranks 1 for labour & human capital and ranks 2 for economics & growth. It dropped five places for the dynamism of its business operating environment and remained the same for financing environment.

China

Rankings

Overall rankings

Top 10RANK SCORE/100ECONOMY

Selected othersRANK SCORE/100ECONOMY

Xu HuaManaging PartnerGrant Thornton China

AUSTRALIA

CHILE

CHINA

NEW ZEALAND

CANADA

FINLAND

UNITED STATES

SOUTH KOREA

MALAYSIA

JAPAN

HONG KONG

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

BRAZIL

INDIA

SOUTH AFRICA

SINGAPORE

ISRAEL

SWEDEN

NORWAY

Economics & growth

Lab ur human capital

Financing environment

Science & technology

“As China moves onto “As China moves onto a more sustainable a more sustainable economic growth path, economic growth path, the GDI 2013 results the GDI 2013 results provide an important provide an important indication that our indication that our business growth business growth environment continues environment continues to improve.”to improve.”

Xu HuaManaging PartnerGrant Thornton China

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